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For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...

It's a spectacularly terrible idea. I'm not exaggerating--it's a really, really, really, really bad and obfuscatory way of doing something that is trivial and straightforward to do otherwise. The ...