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title: "What is the purpose of finalization?"  
description: "What is the purpose of finalization?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-08-26  
updated: 2020-09-17  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2019/what-is-the-purpose-of-finalization  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the purpose of finalization?

The purpose of finalization is to give an unreachable object the opportunity to perform any cleanup processing before the object is garbage collected.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

The purpose of finalization is to give an unreachable object the opportunity to perform any cleanup processing before the object is garbage collected.


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