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Trash talk, Part 2
The Reference Objects API allows programs to interact with the garbage collector
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I encourage you to email me with any questions you might have involving either this or any previous article's material. (Please, keep such questions relevant to material discussed in this column's articles.) Your questions and my answers will appear in the relevant study guides.
In next month's article, you will learn about nested classes.
About the author
Jeff Friesen has been involved with computers for the past 20 years. He holds a degree in computer science and has worked with many computer languages. Jeff has also taught introductory Java programming at the college level. In addition to writing for JavaWorld, he has written his own Java book for beginners -- Java 2 By Example, Second Edition (Que Publishing, 2001; ISBN: 0789725932) -- and helped write Special Edition Using Java 2 Platform (Que Publishing, 2001; ISBN: 0789720183). Jeff goes by the nickname Java Jeff (or JavaJeff). To see what he's working on, check out his Website at http://www.javajeff.com.Read more about Core Java in JavaWorld's Core Java section.
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- "Trash Talk," Jeff Friesen (JavaWorld)
- Part 1. Java recycles its memory through garbage collection (December 2001)
- Part 2. The Reference Objects API allows programs to interact with the garbage collector (January 2002)
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http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/java101/jw-0104-java101.zip - For a glossary specific to this article, homework, tips, and more, see the Java 101 study guide that accompanies this article
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/jw-0104-java101guide.html - The Java Language Specification, Second Edition, James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems, 2000)
http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/j.title.doc.html - The Java Tutorial, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml (Addison-Wesley, 2000; ISBN0201703939)
http://www.javasoft.com/tutorial/ - Sun's official Java language definition
http://java.sun.com/docs/overviews/java/java-overview-1.html - To learn more about Reference objects, read "Reference Objects and Garbage Collection," Monica Pawlan (Java Developer Connection, August 1998)
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ALT/RefObj/ - Discover how much memory an object consumes in "Memory Matters," Tony Sintes (JavaWorld, December 2001)
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2001-12/03-qa-1228-memory.html - Go on to Jeff's next Java 101 lesson"Classes Within Classes" (JavaWorld, February 2002)
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