Fate of {System|Runtime}.runFinalization (Re: Ad removing finalize eventually

[Alan Bateman]

On 01/08/2021 14:01, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Maybe a last question in this context: is it planned that
> {System|Runtime.getRuntime()}.runFinalization() gets removed when finalize() gets removed? If so,
> would there be an equivalent?
>
There isn't a proposal or JEP yet for the next steps for finalization. 
The runFinalization method should probably be deprecated. It might be 
that the method is eventually "degraded" to do nothing or throw an 
exception, too early to say. Aside from System.gc, there isn't an API 
exposed to "help" reference processing.

-Alan