What is the purpose of finalization

The purpose of finalization is to give an unreachable object the opportunity to performany cleanup processing before the object is garbage collected.

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ramu

Mar 10th, 2006

Finalization can be used to run the finalizers (which have not been executed before) for the objects eligible for garbage collection

sagar.singh

Aug 23rd, 2007

Java provides a method called finalize( ) that you can define for your class. Here’s how it’s supposed to work. When the garbage collector is ready to release the storage used for your object, it will first call finalize( ), and only on the next garbage-collection pass will it reclaim the object’s memory. So if you choose to use finalize( ), it gives you the ability to perform some important cleanup at the time of garbage collection

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Mar 13th, 2011

Actually in addtion to perform some clean up process, it can also be used to bring this object to life, by making it accessible again.