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Bug in JavaBlock (or in JavaBlock documentation)

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• Subject: [mg56211] Bug in JavaBlock (or in JavaBlock documentation)
• From: "J. McKenzie Alexander" <jalex at lse.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 04:55:18 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200504180708.DAA20033@smc.vnet.net>
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I think this is a bug in JavaBlock, but it could merely be a mistake in 
the documentation.

The docs for JavaBlock state: "JavaBlock[expr] causes all new Java 
objects returned to Mathematica during
the evaluation of expr to be released when expr finishes."  However, if 
you evaluate the following:

Scan[ReleaseJavaObject,PeekObjects[]];
JavaBlock[
   JavaNew["javax.swing.JProgressBar"]
   ]
PeekObjects[]

You'll see that the list of objects returned by PeekObjects[] contains 
exactly one object - the JProgressBar created by the one call to 
JavaNew, in which case it's not true that "all new Java objects 
returned to Mathematica during the evaluation of expr [are] released 
when expr finishes".

FWIW, I'd prefer JavaBlock behave the way it's described in the docs, 
since then one doesn't have to worry about the odd exception generated 
by having expr return a Java object instead of some other value.

Cheers,

Jason

• References:
  • Bug in UI?
    • From: "Matt" <anonmous69@netscape.net>