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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.