Yes, what you said happens.<BR><BR>The GC can figure out what you're doing easier if you make a = null before you assign a = new aClass () again. (At least, it did in the 1.2 era. No idea if the ...

Inside the JVM, our application memory is divided into the stack and the heap. The stack is where method invocations and reference variables are stored in stack frames. For example, when the JVM ...