Kandukuri Ravinder

• Aug 8th, 2005

 

finalize() method is used to release the resources which were previously allocated for that object before the object is going to be Garbage Collected

meenama

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• Apr 30th, 2008

 

We need not call the finalize() method directly. The method is called automatically by the garbage collector when it determines no more references to the object exist. But when we need to clean-up non-Java resources ie closing a file, we need to over-ride this method from java.lang.Object in our class implementation.

majisukumar

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• Sep 8th, 2010

 

By using finalization,we can define specific actions that will occur when an object is just about to reclaimed by the Garbage Collector.
e.g - If an object is holding some nonjava resources such as file handling or window character resources it need to be freed before the object is get destroyed.To handle this kind of situation finalize() method is called though there is Garbage Collector.