Re: Calling Connection.close() in Connection.finalize()

On Thursday 15 August 2002 19:43, Barry Lind wrote:
> Matthias,
>
> That is the behavior I would expect.  If you don't close the connection
> you will see this.  The reason here is the JVM doesn't run finalization
> when it is exiting.  So you didn't close the connection and the finalize
> method is never called because you are just exiting before garbage
> collection runs.
>

Thanks, you're right.
After executing "con=null;System.gc();" the database connection is closed
properly.
Dumb I was thinking of the finalize method as a C++-like destructor which must
always be called.
Again, thanks for your efforts.

Cheers!
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