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This discussion concerns the merits of the ideas and guidelines presented in the article titled Object Finalization and Cleanup.

Bill Venners

• finalize in lue of ShutdownHook - Chris Abney January 28, 2002 at 1:56 PM (0)
• Be careful "returning" from a "finally" - Kevin Jessup January 11, 2002 at 4:10 PM (0)
• a coding techniqe that will force cleanup (try/finally) - Chris Bedford January 06, 2002 at 11:54 PM (0)
• Iam getting out of memory exption in my project please any body can help me Ill be waiting for your valuable reply - surya October 15, 2001 at 8:00 AM (0)
• WeakHashSet problem - Simon Gould September 14, 2001 at 9:00 AM (0)
• Is there magic in the Garbage Collector? - Burk May 23, 2001 at 8:01 AM (2)
  • magic in garbage collector - wouter van der meiden August 10, 2001 at 6:41 AM (1)
    • Garbage collector - Maithili January 25, 2002 at 4:15 PM (0)
• Testing Yet Again - Bill Venners April 13, 2001 at 1:01 PM (0)
• WeakHashMap question - alok pota February 16, 2001 at 11:33 AM (1)
  • re: WeakHashMap question - Chris Krahe June 11, 2001 at 10:11 AM (0)
• Approach 2 exclusive resource - RAY YE September 29, 2000 at 3:51 PM (0)
• try/finally and if blocks in finalize - Martin Heitz August 01, 2000 at 5:21 AM (0)
• what if superclass does not define 'finalize()' - Manoj June 13, 2000 at 2:01 PM (0)
• WeakReference Specification - Aaron Lehmann March 21, 2000 at 11:41 AM (5)
  • System.gc() Is a Suggestion, not a Command - Bill Venners March 25, 2000 at 3:22 PM (4)
    • WeakReference - It works! - Amrinder Arora June 28, 2001 at 6:15 PM (0)
    • WeakReference - - alok February 14, 2001 at 5:53 PM (2)
      • wrefs - infotone April 04, 2001 at 12:56 PM (1)
        • Weakrefs - Thomas December 07, 2001 at 9:25 AM (0)
• Why throw e - CJ Jouhal October 01, 1999 at 10:12 AM (1)
  • Online Ordering/Catalog System - Mark Schumacher June 03, 2001 at 2:53 AM (0)
• order of object collection - Jeff Benson September 22, 1999 at 5:43 PM (0)
• Question - Bala Paranj August 17, 1999 at 6:38 PM (0)
• garbage algorithm in Java2? - Christer lundb�ck June 09, 1999 at 12:40 AM (1)
  • Garbage Collection - Vikram June 12, 2000 at 1:08 AM (0)
• java.lang.OutOfMemory Exception! - Kakoli Basu May 27, 1999 at 4:10 AM (10)
  • similar kind of problem. - Kakoli Basu from Satyamurthy March 14, 2001 at 5:08 AM (1)
    • Out of Memory exception : invalid peer while running applet in Netscape - Kedar Nirokhekar August 17, 2001 at 9:44 AM (0)
  • similar kind of problem. - Kakoli Basu March 14, 2001 at 5:02 AM (0)
  • Any solution? - Morten Biehl Christiansen January 23, 2001 at 4:40 AM (4)
    • java.lang.outOfMemory error - ilyas ahmed khan January 04, 2002 at 12:37 AM (0)
    • outofmemory - Faisal Javeed August 03, 2001 at 6:35 AM (2)
      • Out of Memory error - Kelly February 12, 2002 at 2:22 PM (1)
        • outofmemory - shree February 13, 2002 at 1:51 PM (0)
  • Did you get any answer - Sanjay Rao June 16, 2000 at 2:20 PM (1)
    • connecting client without request - sreeram December 27, 2000 at 4:19 PM (0)
• Access other computers on the Internet - john April 26, 1999 at 1:02 PM (1)
  • pls help me by telling me how to access other comp - rohit May 27, 2001 at 1:00 PM (0)
• System.runFinalizersOnExit() deprecated. - Kenneth Liu 25 Mar 1999, 9:06 AM (0)
• Setting References To Null - Brian Smith 03 Feb 1999, 7:07 AM (2)
  • Finalization & GC - S.Prakash July 26, 1999 at 7:24 PM (0)
  • Setting References to Null - Akin Kaldiroglu 05 Apr 1999, 8:06 AM (0)
• finalization of statics - Vadim Tropashko 20 Jan 1999, 3:59 PM (0)
• Desinging for garbage collection - Zak Sy 02 Jan 1999, 10:29 PM (2)
  • Hmm... - Bill Venners 13 Jan 1999, 1:59 PM (1)
    • I've had the same problem... - Evan Simeone May 05, 1999 at 8:28 AM (0)
• Finalizer in Java Vs Destructor in C++ - Alex Chan 15 Dec 1998, 5:57 PM (0)
• Compared to destruction in C++ - Alex Chan 15 Dec 1998, 6:14 AM (2)
  • destructor in c++ - mueez uddin khan November 30, 2001 at 5:52 AM (0)
  • Finalization Is Less Predictable - Bill Venners 13 Jan 1999, 1:49 PM (0)
• IOException thrown in constructor - Bob Hancock 14 Oct 1998, 5:01 PM (0)
• finally and close - Dan Lohman 18 Sep 1998, 1:39 PM (0)
• Not able to free the memory - Pradeep Kumar Das 17 Sep 1998, 2:32 AM (3)
  • Swing and AWT memory leaks - Adrian Dickin 23 Feb 1999, 6:52 AM (2)
    • hi - suresh December 19, 2000 at 10:28 AM (1)
      • please send test code - pradeep November 13, 2001 at 3:39 PM (0)
• Approach 2 & multiple log files - neil 04 Aug 1998, 11:15 PM (4)
  • Log file generation through java - RaghuRam October 05, 2001 at 12:35 AM (2)
    • how to use log files in java ? - chintan shah October 22, 2001 at 12:36 AM (1)
      • answer for writing a log file in java - ashok January 22, 2002 at 11:39 PM (0)
  • Not simultaneous - Bill Venners 10 Aug 1998, 11:50 AM (0)
• Running out of memory - Ranganath Samudrala 20 Jul 1998, 1:10 PM (1)
  • User WeakReferences to hold your objects - alok February 14, 2001 at 6:03 PM (0)
• Garbage Collector and Real Time Systems - Raymond Velez 22 Jun 1998, 7:20 AM (0)
• Garbage Collection and innerclass - Viru Hugar 03 Jun 1998, 1:28 PM (1)
  • A, B, X - Bill Venners 03 Jun 1998, 1:50 PM (0)
• GC on exit - zol heyman 01 Jun 1998, 12:11 PM (2)
  • Finalization On Exit - Bill Venners 03 Jun 1998, 1:32 PM (1)
    • runFinalizersOnExit - Michel Feinstein July 26, 1999 at 2:22 PM (0)
• GC faster with no finalize()? - Richard Dallaway 19 May 1998, 3:31 AM (1)
  • Probably - Bill Venners 19 May 1998, 8:20 AM (0)
• Calling close() twice - Bill Venners 14 May 1998, 1:07 PM (1)
  • ...was wondering about that - Jeff Wright 17 Jun 1998, 9:21 PM (0)