A P P E N D I X

Dumping and Debugging

A Summary of This Book's Hackery

Over the past eight chapters, I've been casually mentioning symbolic dumps, peeking at memory, internal structures, and setting events. This appendix is a summary of the methods I've used in the book to investigate or demonstrate some of the things that Oracle does.

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