我同意大部分答案。

你不应该完全依赖finalize或ShutdownHook

完成

The JVM does not guarantee when this finalize() method will be invoked. finalize() gets called only once by GC thread. If an object revives itself from finalizing method, then finalize will not be called again. In your application, you may have some live objects, on which garbage collection is never invoked. Any Exception that is thrown by the finalizing method is ignored by the GC thread System.runFinalization(true) and Runtime.getRuntime().runFinalization(true) methods increase the probability of invoking finalize() method but now these two methods have been deprecated. These methods are very dangerous due to lack of thread safety and possible deadlock creation.

shutdownHooks

public void addShutdownHook(Thread hook)

注册一个新的虚拟机关闭钩子。

Java虚拟机在响应两种事件时关闭:

The program exits normally, when the last non-daemon thread exits or when the exit (equivalently, System.exit) method is invoked, or The virtual machine is terminated in response to a user interrupt, such as typing ^C, or a system-wide event, such as user logoff or system shutdown. A shutdown hook is simply an initialized but non-started thread. When the virtual machine begins its shutdown sequence it will start all registered shutdown hooks in some unspecified order and let them run concurrently. When all the hooks have finished it will then run all uninvoked finalizers if finalization-on-exit has been enabled. Finally, the virtual machine will halt. Note that daemon threads will continue to run during the shutdown sequence, as will non-daemon threads if the shutdown was initiated by invoking the exit method. Shutdown hooks should also finish their work quickly. When a program invokes exit the expectation is that the virtual machine will promptly shut down and exit. But even Oracle documentation quoted that

在极少数情况下，虚拟机可能会中止，即停止运行而不完全关闭

这发生在虚拟机从外部终止时，例如在Unix上使用SIGKILL信号或在Microsoft Windows上使用TerminateProcess调用。如果本机方法出错，虚拟机也可能中止，例如破坏内部数据结构或试图访问不存在的内存。如果虚拟机中止，则不能保证是否会运行任何shutdown钩子。

结论:合理使用try{} catch{} finally{}块，释放finally(}块中的关键资源。在finally{}块中释放资源时，捕获Exception和Throwable。

finalize()函数是析构函数。

但是，通常不应该使用它，因为它是在GC之后调用的，并且您无法判断何时会发生(如果有的话)。

而且，释放具有finalize()的对象需要多个GC。

您应该尝试使用try{…清理代码中的逻辑位置。最后}{…}语句!

尽管Java的GC技术已经有了相当大的进步，但您仍然需要注意引用。我想到了许多看起来微不足道的参考模式的例子，它们实际上是罩下的老鼠窝。

从你的文章中，听起来你并不是为了对象重用而试图实现一个reset方法(真的吗?)您的对象是否持有需要清理的其他类型的资源(例如，必须关闭的流，必须返回的任何池化或借来的对象)?如果您唯一担心的是内存dealloc，那么我将重新考虑我的对象结构，并尝试验证我的对象是自包含的结构，将在GC时被清理。

我同意大部分答案。

你不应该完全依赖finalize或ShutdownHook

完成

The JVM does not guarantee when this finalize() method will be invoked. finalize() gets called only once by GC thread. If an object revives itself from finalizing method, then finalize will not be called again. In your application, you may have some live objects, on which garbage collection is never invoked. Any Exception that is thrown by the finalizing method is ignored by the GC thread System.runFinalization(true) and Runtime.getRuntime().runFinalization(true) methods increase the probability of invoking finalize() method but now these two methods have been deprecated. These methods are very dangerous due to lack of thread safety and possible deadlock creation.

shutdownHooks

public void addShutdownHook(Thread hook)

注册一个新的虚拟机关闭钩子。

Java虚拟机在响应两种事件时关闭:

The program exits normally, when the last non-daemon thread exits or when the exit (equivalently, System.exit) method is invoked, or The virtual machine is terminated in response to a user interrupt, such as typing ^C, or a system-wide event, such as user logoff or system shutdown. A shutdown hook is simply an initialized but non-started thread. When the virtual machine begins its shutdown sequence it will start all registered shutdown hooks in some unspecified order and let them run concurrently. When all the hooks have finished it will then run all uninvoked finalizers if finalization-on-exit has been enabled. Finally, the virtual machine will halt. Note that daemon threads will continue to run during the shutdown sequence, as will non-daemon threads if the shutdown was initiated by invoking the exit method. Shutdown hooks should also finish their work quickly. When a program invokes exit the expectation is that the virtual machine will promptly shut down and exit. But even Oracle documentation quoted that

在极少数情况下，虚拟机可能会中止，即停止运行而不完全关闭

这发生在虚拟机从外部终止时，例如在Unix上使用SIGKILL信号或在Microsoft Windows上使用TerminateProcess调用。如果本机方法出错，虚拟机也可能中止，例如破坏内部数据结构或试图访问不存在的内存。如果虚拟机中止，则不能保证是否会运行任何shutdown钩子。

结论:合理使用try{} catch{} finally{}块，释放finally(}块中的关键资源。在finally{}块中释放资源时，捕获Exception和Throwable。

应该避免使用finalize()方法。它们不是一种可靠的资源清理机制，滥用它们可能会在垃圾收集器中引起问题。

如果你在对象中需要一个释放调用，比如释放资源，使用显式的方法调用。这个约定可以在现有的api中看到(例如Closeable, Graphics.dispose()， Widget.dispose())，通常通过try/finally调用。

Resource r = new Resource();
try {
    //work
} finally {
    r.dispose();
}

尝试使用已处理对象应该抛出运行时异常(参见IllegalStateException)。

编辑:

我在想，如果我所做的只是 来解除对数据的引用并等待 垃圾收集器来收集它们， 会不会有内存泄漏，如果我的 用户反复输入数据和 按了重置键?

一般来说，您所需要做的就是取消对对象的引用——至少，这是它应该工作的方式。如果您担心垃圾收集，请查看Java SE 6 HotSpot[tm]虚拟机垃圾收集调优(或您的JVM版本的等效文档)。

如果你只是担心记忆，那就别担心了。相信GC，它做得不错。实际上，我发现它非常高效，在某些情况下，创建一堆小对象比使用大数组的性能更好。