Re: How to cleanup when a class is destroyed ?

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From: Paul Murray
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:00

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"DavidL" <email.address@in.message> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have come to java from C++, where when you want to cleanup when a class
is
> destroyed you would write a destructor.
>
> I am having trouble getting the same functionailty from java.
>
> From what I have read, I understood that this was the function of the
> "finalize" method.
> However, I don't seem to be able to get it to work.
>

Java does not guarrintee that finalize gets called, although there is a flag
you can set that will actually do this. rather than handling clean-up as a
side effect of memory management, you will need to clean up your classes
expicitly.

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