Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2012 02:30 UTC, submitted by MOS6510
"As a typical Java developer I never monitored the memory usage of my application apart from following typical best practices like closing the connections, streams etc. Recently we were struck with few issues in our JBoss servers that I had to dig in to the memory management."
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2006-01-02
Yes, you are correct. I was only thinking about local variables.
There is little need, however, to have fields that would become unused while the owning object remained in use. In such a case, they shouldn't be fields. That's not to say that people won't do the wrong thing. I assume that's what you were talking about with your code smell comment.