Why Write an Empty finalize() Method?

Posted on April 28, 2022

Now that JEP 421 (Deprecate Finalization for Removal) has been delivered in JDK 18, it seems like more people are talking about finalization and how to migrate to alternatives such as Cleaner. I had an interesting Twitter conversation about this with Heinz Kabutz the other day …

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