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Garbage collection

Posted by Kumar on January 21, 2001 at 11:45 PM

Our project team is venturing on a new large scale project in Java. In doing some evaluations, naturally we discussed the topic of Garbage collection.
The garbage collection in Java is automatic and we don't have any control when an object is actually garbage collected.
We are thinking about setting the objects to null after they have been used. Is this a good coding technique, or are there better techniques involved.
Appreciate some help on this.

Example:
void foo()
{
SomeClass a = new SomeClass();
a.method1();
a.method2();
a = null;
}

• Bruce Eckel Ivan Villanueva January 22, 2001 at 7:34 AM (4)
  • Garbage collection again Kumar January 22, 2001 at 11:29 PM (3)
    • Just another thought Kishori Sharan January 23, 2001 at 11:10 AM (0)
    • More information Ivan Villanueva January 23, 2001 at 10:26 AM (1)
      • Thanks for your inputs Kumar January 25, 2001 at 12:05 AM (0)