Chaotic Java

Since I didn’t see Anywhere around the NetBeans site about RC 2 except their main page, I don’t see what the fuss is all about. What’s new in RC 2 anyway? Seems like Sun didn’t bother to update their page well enough to actually say.

I hope it will be up there soon, and I will update as well. In the meantime, go and download, even though the link still seems to point to RC 1: http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/download.php?type=5.0rc1 (from here.)

I hope this is the final release and work will start for NetBeans 6.0. Good luck, NetBeans dev team!

Following Bharath Ganesh’s post I copied his code piece and tried it. The result was 1.

“Great”, I thought, “The problem must be in his JVM, whatever that is.”

Just for a small test, I added another line, s2 = null, right before the call to the garbage collector. The result was still 1.

First null wasn’t a constant, and now this!