On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 20:17:28 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xue...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review the update to remove finalizer method in the SunJSSE provider 
>> implementation.  It is one of the efforts to clean up the use of finalizer 
>> method in JDK.
>
> Xue-Lei Andrew Fan has updated the pull request incrementally with two 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - typo blank linke correction
>  - revise the update

Ok, after much back and forth, I'm convinced this is ok.  

@dfuch commented in another thread:

> An application should really close its sockets and not let them get garbage 
> collected without closing them: this is sloppy.
> So brutally closing the underlying TCP connection in that case should be an 
> acceptable behaviour, and that would be achieved by just removing the 
> finalize. 

Thanks for allowing me to look more deeply into this.

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Marked as reviewed by wetmore (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8065

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