On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:30 PM, tempy <fay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I didn't think that GAE would start up a new JVM per request, but
> I assumed the GC would clean up any data created between requests, as
> there seems to be nothing left holding references to said data.  One
> of these days I will read up on the details of java garbage
> collection...

This is fundamental Java behavior - static fields are not garbage
collected unless the class itself is unloaded.

Jeff

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