Having plugged my mentor’s musings it seems only fair that I do the same for my mentee, Andrew Hall. Andrew currently works in the Java 5.0 service team but in a previous role in test he became intimately acquainted with the WebSphere Real Time product. I mentioned the Metronome Garbage Collector following Gerry Cuomo’s demo at the WebSphere Service Technical Conference. You can read all about it (along with much more) in the developerWorks article to which Andrew has contributed.