• NEW APPROACH TO MANAGE OBJECTS IN ENVIRONMENT JAVA EMBEDDED

Abstract

To automatically manage the heap memory for small device such as mobile phones, PDA .., Java uses the technique garbage collector  (GC) which incorporates various algorithms : garbage collector by reference counting, garbage collector by marked and sweeping, garbage collector by copying ...

In this paper we present a new approach for optimizing the heap memory for small device.

This approach inherits the advantages of GC by marked and sweeping and minimizes the limitations of GC by reference. In the first part we present the J2ME environment, in the second part we describe our proposed approach and we conclude our article by prospects.