Garbage Collection on the Embedded Java Virtual Machine

The Java language has been established as one of the most widely used language due to its object-oriented programming, safety and flexibility and the garbage collection of the virtual machine has relieved programmers of many difficulties related to the memory management. In the embedded environment, Java is also prevalent, the virtual machine and garbage collector that takes into account the embedded environment is required. In this paper we manage the heap memory area by dividing into young generation and old generation, and we propose a garbage collector in which appropriate techniques are applied to each generation to utilize the different characteristics of each generation. Also, we propose the write barrier technique and double filtering technique for efficient garbage recognition, and double check method for determining and reclaiming the garbage with cyclic structure. The proposed method satisfies the embedded environment's requirements of fast object allocation, real time property, recollection of all the garbage, elimination of fragmentations and high locality.