Everything would /eventually/ get GC'd... but eventually is a long and non-guaranteed time. If you're dealing with something expensive, such as file-handles on a server, you'd want to handle this explicitly.
One correction... you are not guaranteed that a finalizer will get called.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtctips/j-jtc0319a.html
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