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

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

Oh, one more thing.  ResteasyClient does implement finalize and will 
close during garbage collection.

On 5/28/2014 12:49 AM, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> 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.
>

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