Garbage Collection Doubt

[aresh babu]

How can we stop garbage collecting a user define object permanantly without assigning the references once again to that object?



Thanks in advance

[Francisco Montes]

My understanding:

An object is eligible for garbage collection as soon as there is no references to it from any live thread.

So, unless you override the finally method of that object and make a reference variable (in a live thread) point to it... it may get garbage collected.

[Embla Tingeling]

aresh babu wrote:How can we stop garbage collecting a user define object permanantly without assigning the references once again to that object?

You assign the object reference to a variable that's static and final, like

static final Object o = new Objcet(); // object will never be GCed

[Campbell Ritchie]

Francisco Montes wrote: . . . So, unless you override the finally method of that object and make a reference variable (in a live thread) point to it... it may get garbage collected.

By a "finally method," do you mean a finally block or a final reference?

[Paul Clapham]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Francisco Montes wrote: . . . So, unless you override the finally method of that object and make a reference variable (in a live thread) point to it... it may get garbage collected.

By a "finally method," do you mean a finally block or a final reference?

I'm guessing that Francisco meant the "finalize" method.

[Francisco Montes]

True, I meant "finalize" (oops). Thanks Paul. :-)