Switch from Finalize to Cleaners

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the repository's uses of Java finalizers and read the linked Java 9 guidance on Cleaner. Determine which native-resource lifecycle paths are in scope and how the change should be validated; done means the relevant finalizer usage has been replaced without changing cleanup behavior.

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Description

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48533097/in-java9-finalizers-have-been-deprecated-instead-cleaners-have-been-introduced for more information. Finalizers are deprecated and likely removed in a future version of Java. Cleaners are also more efficient.

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