[jdom-interest] RE: JDOM and Garbage Collection

[PJ.Fanning at polarlake.com]

I am using Sun's JDK1.3.1_04 and its garbage collection is far from perfect.
With a complex set of interlinked objects like a JDOM Document, it
occasionally fails to collect a dereferenced Document completely and this
then gets put into a part of memory reserved for long-term objects. The
garbage collector should eventually get around to cleaning this up but it
can take a long time.
I am using a version of JDOM built from CVS about 3/4 weeks after ther beta8
release (and which uses the TextBuffer in the SAXHandler).

>Since JDOM is written in Java, I'm wondering what do you mean "memory
>leak" 
>if your assertion is correct. Java gc should be able to collect memory 
>garbage  after you force each used reference to null. Please try call
>
>System.gc();
>
>at the point you want and see if this can ease the memory stress by 
>forcing gc.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>--
>Xiaozheng