Deleting a class

[Mohamed Jeleel]

Hi All,

I want to know in java can we delete a class loaded in to memory.

for example I have a login module. After user logs in I want to delete all the login module related classes its members etc... from the memory.
Because those classes will not need after that.

tx

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

ClassLoader do that for you.

[Mohamed Jeleel]

I am not clear.

[Pushkar Choudhary]

code killer wrote:

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[Rob Spoor]

If you use a new class loader to load the classes, the classes loaded using this class loader will be unloaded when the class loader is garbage collected. This does require you to remove all other references to these classes, including references to instances.

URLClassLoader is used most often.

[David Newton]

Technical issues aside, why are you trying to do this? It's unlikely the memory savings you see will be significant, or even register, in the great scheme of Java memory usage.