G

garbage collection, 244–253

assignments. See garbage collection

finalize() and, 253

forcing, 250–252

how does it work, 246–247

isolating a reference and, 249–250

memory management and, 244–245

object eligibility for, 247

overview of, 245–246

reassigning reference variables, 248–249

two-minute drill, 258

when does garbage collector run, 246

generic collections

creating generic class, 598–602

creating generic methods, 602–605

declarations, 597–598

legacy approach to collections, 572–575

legacy code and, 575

methods, 584–597

mixing generic and non-generic collections, 576–582

overview, 522, 570–572

polymorphism and, 582–584

self test answers, 622–634

self test questions, 611–621

two-minute drill, 609–610

get methods, 9

getTime method, 460–461

>= (greater than or equal to), 279

greedy quantifiers, 479–481