Name: clC74495 Date: 11/27/98


I have found that java.awt.Window objects are never garbage
collected after I remove all of my references because of a circular
reference in the java.awt.Windows.java code, which I have no
control over.

The Windows constructor sets its private member 'focusMgr' =
new FocusManager(this). Then FocusManager sets its private
member 'focusRoot' to the passed in Window reference.

ANY Application using Window objects will have this serious
memory leak! If the Window isn't garbage collected then most
of its components aren't either without a lot of work!
PLEASE FIX THIS BEFORE RELEASING JDK1.2!
(Review ID: 43353)
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