Possible Memory leak in Number of Loaded classes in Java Application

Question

I recently began profiling an osgi java application that I am writing using VisualVM. One thing I have noticed is that when the application starts sending data to a client (ove

Answer 1

Are you dynamically creating new classes on the fly somehow?

Thanks for your help. I figured out what the problem is. In one of my classes, I was using Jaxb to create an XML string. In doing this, JAXB ueses reflection to create a new class.

JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(this.getClass());

So although the JAXBContext wasn't saying around in the heap, the classes had been loaded.

I have run my program again, and I see a normal plateau as I would expect.