Expert Java Development and Project Management Tips

There is no doubt about the fact that Java development has changed the face of the present day technology. It is now easy for the businesses, irrespective of their scale and size of production or operations, to own rather robust and standalone applications for their businesses. Besides, the fact that Java is an open source development platform (created by Sun Microsystems) only goes to keep the project well under the budget lines, and with the appropriate Java Development talent in place, it is almost a cinch to own highly scalable and value adding Java applications, without having to barrage one’s financial accounts.

However, like everything else, Java too comes with a flip side. Problems have been reported regarding the performance and memory management of this application. And hence, here we are to provide certain experiential tips on better memory and performance management of Java Application Development. Moreover, we shall also discuss in this post various Java project management tips and tricks, to enable you to be better in charge of the entire process and check any loopholes or leaks in the performance.

Java Performance Enhancements

The Java Virtual Machine provides brilliant options for improving the performance of the website and we suggest that you make use of it too. With a few simple commands in place, one can easily take charge of the entire development process and enhance its efficacy as well. Java virtual machine running on the server may take a while in the beginning, but performs really well in the due course of the development cycle. All you need to do is to pass the server option in order to activate the serve in Java Virtual Machine.

Besides, if you need the system to perform even more aggressively, it can be achieved simply by adding XX:+AggressiveOpts. You may also activate a common caching of most of the strings, with a simple ‘-XX:+StringCache’ option.

And that’s it. You are done. Seriously, whoever thought taking charge of Java performance would be this easy.

Java Memory Management

Taking charge of the memory of the projects that you develop can be just as easy. You can again make use of Java Virtual Machine to take care of the memory allocation and memory consumption of the Java development projects that you oversee. In order to lower the memory consumption, we suggest you the following:

While starting the heap, use the comment –Xmsn, where ‘n’ entails the maximum memory allocation for a particular entity. For instance, -Xms2m or –Xms2048k, both correspond to a maximum memory allocation of 2 MB each. This command prompts the Java Virtual Machine to keep the program well between the range of the heap size. However, the problem is that the program might crash if it simply cannot be managed well under the upper limit assigned by you.

Alternatively you may also consider using –Xssn, in a similar fashion as discussed above. However, the limitation still holds. You cannot force a program demanding higher memories into a lower limit heap and the system will again crash.

Lastly, we suggest you use a parallel garbage collector in places you cannot use the upper two. Use the comment -XX:+UseParallelGC and it would boast up the memory management, at the same time supplement the overall garbage collection rate.

We are hopeful that the above methods would help you speed up the performance of Java development and also be better in charge of the memory allocations. Now, let us discuss some project management practices which are best suited in the present swift and cut throat business world.

Java Development Project Management

In order to better manage the project in hand, we need a strategy, and human resources to help us implement the same. Handling a wide array of multi disciplinary Java Development projects by Hire Java Developers, we have come to develop a strategy of our own, which are hopeful would work for different businesses as well. Discover more about the strategy below:

Assign a particular budget for performance management. It sends a message in the entire organization about how serious you are regarding the entire performance management initiative.

Try to be as specific as possible while setting up performance specifications. Try and gauge the performance indicator from the project design itself.

Delegate. Come up with various internal performance experts whose focus would be to meet the performance standards and ensure that the team does too.

Develop an environment duly performance focused. Make the analysis focus on performance, not just the outcome. In no time the organization would reach high levels of performance efficacy and efficiency.

Test a new skeletal system or simulation and run its validation. Test the system for performance and upon getting successful results integrate the same in the workings.

Summary

This is all that we had for you presently. For customized and fully scalable Java application, consider opting for professional Java Web application development services. And do share with us your thoughts about this article, in the comments section below.

Celin Smith is a passionate Php developer and content developer, working with the Xicom Technologies Ltd.