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Is there magic in the Garbage Collector?

Posted by Burk on May 23, 2001 at 8:01 AM

I'm studying to take the SCJP2 exam and ran into an interesting (I think) question. Only sublclasses and classes in the same package are supposed to be able to call a protected method, so how does the Java Garbage Collector call finalize when the signature is "protected finalize() throws Throwable"?

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