How does Java Garbage collector handle self-reference?

Question

Hopefully a simple question. Take for instance a Circularly-linked list:

class ListContainer
{
  private listContainer next;
  <..>

  public void setN         


        

Answer 1

Simply, Yes. :)

Check out http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp10283/

All JDKs (from Sun) have a concept of "reach-ability". If the GC cannot "reach" an object, it goes away.

This isn't any "new" info (your first to respondents are great) but the link is useful, and brevity is something sweet. :)