Remove finalization from Logger ------------------------------- Key: LOGMGR-153 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-153 Project: JBoss Log Manager Issue Type: Sub-task Components: core Reporter: Philippe Marschall Priority: Major Fix For: 3.0.0.Final Finalization has been [deprecated in Java 9|https://stuartmarks.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/deprecation-of-object-fina...] because of performance issues with the recommendation that people switch to PhantomReference. Unfortunately as part of LOGMGR-107 Logger now uses finalization. Fortunately thanks to the excellent ref package in wildly-common this can be fixed easily.