Re: SSCCE of my graphical interface with memory leak

From:
 Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:55:03 -0700
Message-ID:
<1193072103.433644.199210@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 23, 12:58 am, Sal <sal...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
I tried to write a SSCCE of my graphical interface ..


Lew mentioned that was not an SSCCE. Since I was
really bored and worked with it anyway, I can flesh
that out.

It was not..
Short - at over 1300 lines.
Self Contained - it had unused imports for the
'javax.comm.SerialPort', and other imports
for 'com.toedter.calendar.*' and also used images
that I do not have locally*.
Compilable/Correct - Not compilable due to missing
imports, line wrap, and a few other things, not 'correct'
since the final version I got compiled and running
showed no memory leak, and therefore it was not an..
Example - of the problem.

So - apart from missing every single letter in that
abbreviation, what would make you think it was an
SSCCE?**

* Oh, BTW - besides the other dozen or so rotten or
rank things I observed in that code while fixing it
to the point where it would run, I noted it was
instantiating ImageIcons for JLabels directly within
the even handling sections of code.

Since the JVM can be very 'memory leaky' with images
generally, I recommend creating these images *once*,
first time needed, and keeping references to those
initial images for later use.

** Please, go back and read the document to which
Lew linked.

Andrew T.

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