question about garbage collection...

[benmartin101]

how do you explicitly "DESTROY" objects in java? I know about the garbage collection doing it on its own but i'm looking for something more like in vb.net, such as:

myObject = nothing

[sql_lall]

Best I can think of is using the null keyword:
myObject = null;

[System_Error]

You don't.. It's automatic and happens periodically. You can set them to null like sqlall said, to maybe prevent errors or already have the object initialized for further use.

[benmartin101]

thanks.

[Dillinger4]

Yeah just dangle the ref and the garbage collector should reclaim the allocated memory.