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Updater: Stephen McConnell (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:34 AM
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Key: RUNTIME-33
Summary: Document the collection policy for transient components.
Type: Improvement
Status: Open
Priority: Minor
Project: Merlin Runtime
Components:
COMPOSITION
Fix Fors:
3.4.0
Assignee: Stephen McConnell
Reporter: Stephen McConnell
Created: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 7:10 AM
Updated: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:34 AM
Description:
> "Stephen McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>Eike Stepper wrote:
>>
>>
>>>i solved it:
>>>
>>>i did the registration of the component from within the
>>>component code so that the registry had a handle to the component.
>>>now i do the registration from outside and a handle to the proxy
>>>is stored in the map and abracadabra: the proxy is no longer
>>>garbage collected ;-)))
>>
>>Was about to suggest this - basically the container cannot hold a hard
>>reference to a transient component because this would result in a direct
>>memory leak. Transients are a special case that default to a non-hard
>>collection policy. As you discovered - if you maintain a reference to
>>the component then the component will not be garbage collected.
>
>
> such kind of special treatment should really be mentioned in the docs ;-)
> and your last sentence is misleading: obviously holding a handle to the
> component does not prevent the proxy from being finalized. in my opinion
> it's most important to state that the proxy must be strongly reachable!
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