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RE: java-interest-digest V1 #138

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Thu Aug 31 16:04:11 1995

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:03:48 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu
Cc: MuzoK@msn.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950831075609.1879A-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> (message from Robert Stephen Rodgers on Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:02:03 -0400 (EDT))


> Does Java GC specifically clean up Windows-specific resources?  I'm
> almost 100% sure it doesn't.


I believe the correct action here is to *always* wrap any Windows
resource in a Java object, and release it in the finalize() method.

M.

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