Java Weak Reference (Guest Post)
Marina Sprava | February 18, 2013 | Uncategorized | Class (computer programming), Garbage Collection, GC, Java, object, phantom reference, soft reference, strong reference, weak reference
This article was originally posted by Joseph Kulandai at javapapers. Releasing unused objects for garbage collection can be done efficiently using java weak reference. Yes. weak reference is related to garbage collection. In java we need to not anything explicitly for garbage collection (GC), this memory management overhead is taken care by java run-time itself….