What keeps a window alive?

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From: Greg Safford
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:16

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I see lots of Java applications that directly or indirectly create a window
(say by instantiating a class derived from JFrame). Since the frame object
is created in the scope of the main() method, I'd expect the frame object to
be destroyed when the main() method returns. However, it is plain that this
does not happen; the frame window remains until closed, as if a reference to
it were being kept in some global collection.
Can anyone point me to a reference explaining what keeps such an object
alive?

TIA

Greg Safford

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