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Re: coding cursors in Java

From: guy ruth hammond <grh_at_agency.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:01:10 -0400
Message-Id: <10562.112314@fatcity.com>


Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial.VICTORIA_FINANCIAL_at_lnn.com wrote:
>
> java has automatic garbage collection.
> The only way for you to control when the garbage collector kicks in is by
> assigning the appropriate variable value of null.

Calling System.gc() explicitly triggers the garbage collection thread. Objects are only garbage collected if there are no references to them, i.e. null.

g

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