Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
Odi, Mike
Even though the garbage collection in modern JVMs has improved dramatically and these days can possibly be considered neglegble, there's still a very real problem with garbage collection of open sockets. In some cases this can cause a substantial resource leak.
I believe this is exactly the problem Jeanremi has been having
http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9728
This said, I see no problem in rephrasing this particular section of the guide.
cheers,
Oleg
Morning Oleg,
This is right of course, but sockets are not subject to the GC. GC is for memory only. Not a general resource manager. The finalizer may be (ab|over)used for more general resource management though. That's why I would stress the open socket problem more, and the GC less.
Odi
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