[Resteasy-users] Why no client.close()?

[Guy R. <guy...@gm...>]

The RESTEasy documentation specifically says (section 48.3):

"Finally, if your javax.ws.rs.client.Client class has created the engine 
automatically for you, you should call Client.close() and this will 
clean up any socket connections."

Yet the overwhelming majority of examples I can find, including those 
shipped with RESTEasy, do not explicitly invoke Client.close().  Is this 
because resource cleanup will eventually be done automatically during 
garbage collection?

We are using the ResteasyClient proxy approach, but that class extends 
Client, so I'm assuming the same discussion holds for the proxy.

Thanks.

-- 
Guy Rouillier

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