[jEdit-Syntax-devel] memory leak

[Brian W. Y. <by...@de...>]

Using OptimizeIt and the jre 1.3 w/hotspot, I've noted that the JEdit 
component is not getting cleaned up by the garbage collector after 
expicit de-referencing.  This is a known Swing issue, and an annoying 
one at that.  I've had to solve it by explicitly removing listeners and 
nulling out objects in my own GUI code.  I wonder if this type of 
cleanup is something that should be considered internally inside the 
JEdit component, with a cleanup() method that could be called?

It affects me more because my app uses multiple copies of the JEdit 
component, and expects them to be freed after the user is done with 
them.  But what I end up with is a few hundred or more objects from the 
jedit package on my heap.

Thanks
Brian Young
by...@de...