1. A method for generating a memory dump of a memory of a computer system, comprising the steps of: loading an application executable into the memory of the computer system for execution as an application runtime; the application runtime allocating memory of the computer system for the storage of application data; the application runtime loading a description of a structure of the application data into the memory of the computer system; and the computer system generating a memory dump of the memory of the computer system, said memory dump including the description and the application data.