The transition of an object into a condition where it is no longer part of the model
This is a post-processing step applied to a data object after it has been collected by the garbage collector For example a file object should be finalised by closing it since it can no longer be used by the program See Also: garbage collector
The court hearing which results in the adoption decree This is the moment when the adoptee becomes the permanent, legally adopted child of the adoptive parents In PA this cannot occur less than 6 months after the adoption
Action in which lead-in and lead-out areas are recorded that must be performed at the end of a recording operation if the disc is to be readable in a conventional drive Also referred to as closure
Immediately before an object is garbage collected, its finalize method is called This gives it the opportunity to free any resources it might be holding on to
In garbage-collected languages, it is often necessary to perform actions on some objects after they are no longer in use and before their memory(2) can be recycled These actions are known as finalization or termination A common use of finalization is to release resources when the corresponding "proxy" object dies For example, an open file might be represented by a stream object When this object has been proven dead by the collector(1), it is certain that the file is no longer in use by the program, and it can and should be closed before the stream is recycled Note that finalization is not, in general, guaranteed to be prompt, and this can cause problems if it is used to manage scarce operating system resources such as file descriptors Many object-oriented languages provide support for finalization, for example, Cedar, Java, Perl 5, and Smalltalk The term finalization is sometimes used to refer to the use of destructors(1), for example in Ada