[GitHub] [accumulo] ctubbsii commented on issue #723: Use of Object.finalize() is deprecated in Java 9, and generally bad practice

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ctubbsii commented on issue #723: Use of Object.finalize() is deprecated in Java 9, and generally bad practice
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/723#issuecomment-500690922
 
 
   > ...if object already has Closable or analog of close implementation like MetaDataTableScanner it is looks simple to rely just on close call.
   
   Yes, but we'd need to ensure callers are calling the `close()` method in a try-with-resources block or in a finally block.
   
   Other options might be to use Java's new Cleaner utility (with PhantomReferences?), whose API I'm not yet familiar with using.

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