[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBossCache] - Re: JBoss Cache Public API

Bringing this back up again. "bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Depends on whether they require some cleanup beyond garbage collection. Sounds like that's the thing to investigate. | Consider a lot of the collections maintained by several components, like Notifiers, RegionManagers, etc. Usually these are uninitialized, are set on creation so that after creation, for example, regions and listeners can be created and added. Upon calling stop(), these are emptied, but the collections still exist so that more such elements could be added and the cache restarted. Destroy() on the other hand assigns the refs to these collections to null, so that the collections themselves can be gc()'d. I guess the question to ask is how important is it to have these collections hanging around? Not a severe impact, I imagine, given that a ref to the cache still exists. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4164560#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...