Re: Instantiation question

     The ' new'  operator allocates memory for your show object. Once you
have allocated an object, the run-time system keeps track of the objects
status and automatically reclaims memory when objects are no longer in use,
freeing memory for future use.

Java's memory management model is based on objects and references to
objects. Java has no pointers, Instead all references to allocated storage,
which in practice means all references to an object, are through symbolic
"handles". The Java memory manager keeps track of references to objects.
When an object has no more references, the object is a candidate for
garbage collection.

Taken from The Java Language White Paper.







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