[671] in java-interest
Re: lifetime of objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Jul 12 18:12:15 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:58:22 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, Lein Ton <ton@cc.gatech.edu>
Hi Lein,
> I can remember that creating new objects in C++ within methods was one
> of the most certain way of getting a core dump.
> The next java program seems to work, but can I be sure that the
> instances that created in add() of HtContainer have the same lifetime
> as the hashtable in HtContainer?
Java uses a garbage collector. This means that you never have to worry
about the lifetime of objects. As long as you can reference them somehow
the are alive.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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