JDBC garbage collection

Question

What happens if i don\'t close resultset or preparedstatements.

Will they be closed and released by the garbage collector.

I\'m asking this for local variabl

Answer 1

I am not an expert here, but I don't think GC can collect that as PSs are associated with database connections, so that won't get garbage collected. Yo can have a look here: http://www.theserverside.com/news/1365244/Why-Prepared-Statements-are-important-and-how-to-use-them-properly