RFR 9: 8165641 : Deprecate Object.finalize

[Hans Boehm]

Thanks!

I think that helps a lot.


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> The api note for Object.finalize is not an optimal location for this more
> general advice,
> but is good as far as it can go in relation to the current changes to
> deprecate Object.finalize().
>
> The webrev[1] is updated to add a paragraph to the apiNote[2]:
>
>      * @apiNote
>      * Classes that embed non-heap resources have a number of options
>      * for cleanup of those resources. The class must ensure that the
>      * lifetime of each instance is longer than that of any resource it
> embeds.
>      * {@link java.lang.ref.Reference#reachabilityFence} can be used to
> ensure that
>      * objects remain reachable while resources embedded in the object are
> in use.
>
> Regards, Roger
>
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-finalize-deprecate-8165641
> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-finalize-deprecate
> -8165641/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java.sdiff.html
>