Rickard �berg wrote:
>
> Hey
>
> Juha Lindfors wrote:
> > the spec says for session bean class that it is not allowed to define the
> > finalize() method (6.10.2).
> >
> > But what about the superclass? There's going the be a finalize method
> > somewhere, at least on the Object class. Why can't the session bean class
> > define the finalize() method then?
>
> Just guessing here, but I don't think that you can assume in general
> that it will be called. At all. That's probably the main reason. Any
> cleanup code should be done in ejbRemove or unsetEntityContext.
I believe that the 1.2 VM spec requires finalizers to be called,
eventually. However, in an EJB, the implementation object might be
pooled, in which case it could 'be' a number of different 'beans' (as
different state gets swapped in and out), so the eventual call to
finally would be pretty much useless.
>
> /Rickard
>
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