Question about the Garbage Collector

[Guest_imported]

I would like to ask, why the Garbage collector cannot be a subclass of the class implementing the finalize() method or in the same package?

I know the finalize() method must be declared to be protected, and a protected method can only ve accessed by subclasses or classes in the same package.Also, finalize() method is called by the Garbage Collector before an object is destroyed...

 

[idarke]

The garbage collector is part of the runtime environment. It's more like an operating system thing.