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F�bio Costa wrote:
> 
> I need explicity code to garbage collector clear my objects from memory.

Well, official you can use:

  System.gc();

Unfortunately, there is a design bug in JavaSoft's JVMs so the memory
doesn't get freed to the OS. (Which in turn means the OS can't give this
memory back to the JVM if required.)

You can do a simple test to verify this. Write a loop that creates
100,000 objects, frees the references, calls System.gc() and sleeps for
a few seconds to allow gc() to work. If gc() worked as advertised, you
would never get an out of memory error (the initial 100,000 objects must
fit in available memory though).

JavaSoft says they will fix this in starting at 1.2beta4 and perhaps
backfix prior versions if they get a better handle on the whats and
hows.