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Swing Components have quite a few invisible references to each other,
some of them in static caches, which makes it very difficult to really
isolate a window and all its nested components so the garbage
collector can do its job. Menus are especially troublesome.

What I do is walk the Component tree and break all parent/child
references, remove all menu items etc. This reclaims more than 90% of
the resources that are otherwise wasted.

You can find some example code in our free Java Library qflib which is
available at
http://www.qfs.de/en/projects/qflib/index.html

Take a look at de.qfs.lib.gui.SwingUtil.cleanup.

Regards,
	Greg

rocha <rocha@haisystems.com> writes:

> I have an application which instantiates many different windows.  as the
> application progresses, the performance degrades.  I have traces this
> problem to the fact that none of the windows are being destroyed until
> the application terminates and they are holding a lot of memory.  it
> seems to me that something is still holding a reference to the windows(
> possible the parent window), but i  don't know how to force there
> destruction.  does anyone know how to do this?  thanks in advance
> Ilougino Rocha.

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Gregor Schmid                                      gs@qfs.de
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