CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
RoR
RoR

Reputation: 16472

Java initialize question

What does the below code do when you instantiate the StudentRegistrar class?

public class StudentRegistrar
{
    public StudentRegistrar ();
    {
        new RecordManager().Initialize();
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (2)

sjr
sjr

Reputation: 9875

It doesn't necessary destroy the RecordManager immediately. Initialize() may spawn a new thread which can then hold a reference to the RecordManager. Since new threads are a garbage collection root, the RecordManager reference will be reachable from that root and therefore it will not be cleaned up.

It really depends on what Initialize does!

Upvotes: 4

trojanfoe
trojanfoe

Reputation: 122381

It creates an instance of RecordManager, calls the Initialize() method and then destroys the instance of RecordManager.

EDIT: Actually it won't compile due to the spurious ;

Upvotes: 1

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