At that moment, the idea is the JVM will execute the object.finalize() method, and application-specific code will then clean ... Introduced in Java 7, a try-with-resource statement allows you ...

The finalize method must die, because banking on the JVM’s gc ... and that certainly makes maintaining old code easier. But the Java approach to never pruning deprecated methods out of the spec is not ...

In a recent blog post, entitled Deprecation of Object.finalize(), Oracle ... getting rid of the deprecated methods. All I ask is that they don’t prune away that deprecated java.util.Date constructor.