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Since
Java provides garbage collection
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There
are no destructors
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But…have
you ever had a destructor do something other
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than
memory deallocation?
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If
you need this – you must write a named function and call
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it
explicitly!! (maybe called : void cleanup()?)
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If
for some reason you do need some kind of garbage
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collection
done that the garbage collector doesn’t know
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about
(like C or C++ memory allocation is being used-not
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recommended!)
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You
can write a method called “finalize()” which the
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garbage
collector will implicitly call if it is provided prior
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to
releasing memory –
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and
then on the next garbage collection pass it will reclaim
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the
object’s memory
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