RE: [JDBC] finalize in LargeObject

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Crotwell
Hi The reason I suggested that the finializer be there is that when you are using large objects via blobs, there is no way to say "I am done with this blob" and have its resources cleaned up. The only thing you can do is set the reference to null and hope the garbage collector cleans up the blob

[JDBC] finalize in LargeObject

2001-03-19 Thread Philip Crotwell
Hi Shouldn't there be a protected void finalize() { close(); } in LargeObject.java so that the db resources are released when it is garbage collected or am I missing something? thanks, Philip ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you ca