This version provides many new features for troubleshooting and servicing the product, with a focus on the ability to automatically detect and recover from problems.
You can configure WebSphere Application Server to detect, prevent, and take action, if possible, on classloader memory leaks using the memory leak detection policy. For more information about memory leaks, read the Memory Leaks in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition applications topic.
WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5 provides a top down pattern-based memory leak detection, prevention, and action by watching for suspect patterns in application code at run time. WebSphere Application Server has some means of protection against memory leaks when stopping or redeploying applications. If leak detection, prevention and action are enabled, WebSphere Application Server monitors application and module activity performs diagnostic actions to detect and fix leaks when an application or an individual module stops. This feature helps in increasing application up time with frequent application redeployments without cycling the server.
The IBM Support Assistant Data Collector for WebSphere Application Server tool focuses on automatic collection of problem data. It also provides symptom analysis support for the various categories of problems encountered by IBM software products. Information pertinent to a type of problem is collected to help identify the origin of the problem under investigation. The tool assists customers by reducing the amount of time it takes to reproduce a problem with the proper RAS tracing levels set, as well as by reducing the effort required to send the appropriate log information to IBM Support.