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Posted by Lu Ping on December 01, 2000 at 5:03 AM

In Chapter 7 of ,in the section:Inheritance and finalize( ),frog.java, in the example,the order of finalization is the reverse of the order of initialization. But as for the finalization of Characteristic,the result is the reverse order of finalization:
finalizing Characteristic is alive
finalizing Characteristic has heart
finalizing Characteristic can live in water

I can't understand this,this seems the objects in the base class are finalized before that in the derived class.