doubt abt finalizer method

[Sanjay]

Chris,

May be my question was not very clear, but what I meant is

Don't worry about the garbage collector collecting objects that you're
still using.

In the scenario that I mentioned I wouldnt have to worry about final()?
Right?

Sanjay

 

[Roedy Green]

When you call System.runFinalizersOnExit and there exists any daemon
thread anywhere in the application, it's almost guaranteed to happen.
It's not necessarily guaranteed to cause deadlock or race conditions,
but it very well might.

With System.runFinalizersOnExit( true ) does it run finalize on ALL
objects even reachable ones, or just unreachable ones?

If reachable ones too, I think that deserves a gotcha. I would never
have expected that.

 

[Chris Smith]

With System.runFinalizersOnExit( true ) does it run finalize on ALL
objects even reachable ones, or just unreachable ones?

All objects.

If reachable ones too, I think that deserves a gotcha. I would never
have expected that.

To me, "gotcha" implies that there's some surprising aspect of an API,
but you should learn that bit and then still use it. This doesn't fall
into that category. If you can convince people not to use the API, then
go for it.

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