Re: Garbage collection not happening?

From: Jacy Grannis <jacygrannis_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 5 Sep 2002 12:30:59 -0700
Message-ID: <b94ddb06.0209051130.47af39e7@posting.google.com>

Jason Simpson <jsimpson_at_haywire.csuhayward.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.31.0209031549410.1438-100000_at_haywire.csuhayward.edu>...
> A guess: iPlanet is caching references to the Oracle driver objects you
> expect to be garbage collected. This is why the standalone app works
> differently, since your code run standalone does not maintain references
> to these objects.

I would guess something similar. Perhaps they are using a class-loader that keeps the references? It would be nice to know how to prevent this behaviour, though.... Received on Thu Sep 05 2002 - 14:30:59 CDT