Tomcat and Beans

[Paul Hunnisett]

How does Tomcat manage standard Java beans?  I have attempted to use an
application scoped bean ands have included serialization code in the
finalize() method and the code to read up from file in the constructor.  I
assumed that whenever Tomcat thought a bean was unnecesary it would simply
garbage collect it(which would call my finalize() method) but this doesn't
seem to happen.  The bean get's created fine, but not serialized properly.
What is Tomcat doing?

Paul Hunnisett