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Pamela:

You've never been able to count on your finalizer in Applets.  If the
browser closes the VM dies.  As it dies it may start the process for
the finalizer but like garbage collection there is no guarantee.

-Rich

Pamela Frimer wrote:
> 
> I created an applet that is based off of JApplet.  There are no
> components on the applet and the applet itself doesn't do anything. I
> just created a new applet within JBuilder and did not add any code,
> except for a finalize routine to see if it gets called.  When I run the
> applet in a browser, the finalizer never gets executed even if I exit
> the browser.  I also force the garbage collector to run and the
> JApplet's finalizer never gets called. If I base the exact same applet
> from the Applet class instead of  JApplet, the finalize routine get
> called correctly.  Is anyone else experiencing this problem?  Is there
> something else needed to be done for JApplets to cause them to get
> cleaned up?
> 
> Thanks,
>      Pam

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