RFR 9: 8138696 : java.lang.ref.Cleaner - an easy to use alternative to finalization

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Tue Oct 13 15:55:02 UTC 2015


> On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There is one usage of sun.misc.Cleaner.clean() in JavaFX, I think.

The only one I know is to invoke the cleaner of the DirectBuffer (are you referring to that)?  I can’t find any usage of sun.misc.Cleaner to create its own Cleaner (sun.misc.Cleaner was used in older version of JavaFX but AFAIK they are replaced with phantom references).

Mandy


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