On a side note, will the actual removal of finalization become a dependency of the actual removal of the security manager? I recall when the security manager was deprecated for removal, developers pointed out that there can be security risks with finalization in the mailing list.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 2:58 PM <mark.reinh...@oracle.com> wrote: > > https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/421 > > Summary: Deprecate finalization for removal in a future > release. Finalization remains enabled by default for now, but can > be disabled to facilitate early testing. In a future release it > will be disabled by default, and in a later release it will be > removed. Maintainers of libraries and applications that rely upon > finalization should consider migrating to other resource management > techniques such as the try-with-resources statement and cleaners. > > - Mark
