Before we understand why finalize is going away and what to use instead, let’s understand what finalize is or was. The basic idea is to allow you to define a method on your objects that will execute ...

Download the source code for example applications in this tutorial. Created by Jeff Friesen. We’ll look at each of these methods and how you can use them to perform special tasks in the context of ...

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