Re: How to cleanup when a class is destroyed ?

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From: DavidL
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00

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Thanks Benjamin.

I will look at that now.

"Benjamin Johnston" <s355171@student.uq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> >
...snip...
>
> Take a look at the JavaDocs for;
> System.runFinalizersOnExit(boolean);
>
> And
> Object.finalize();
>
>
> But, keep in mind that most of the time you'll find that you
won't/shouldn't
> need to do any finalization at all (its more of a C++ thing)...
>
> To quote "Java 2 Performance and Idiom Guide";
> For many resources (threads, files, sockets and so on) it will be usually
be
> completely obvious when they can be released or closed. The finalize
method,
> on the other hand, should be used as a last-ditch cleanup effort for
> de-registration.
>
> -Benjamin Johnston
> s355171@student.uq.edu.au
>
>
>

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