How to destroy object in itself

Question

Is there any solution for destroying current instance of object in itself ?

I am looking for something which looks like:

class KillMe {     ....     public void destroy() {         this.getObject = null //this is only for demonstrate my idea     }      .... } 

Answer 1

Java objects live until there are no longer any references to them. Since an object cannot determine how many references there are to itself, an object cannot "destroy itself".

Answer 2

The object doesn't have access to the references to it so there's no way to set them to null or something else. An object can only be "destroyed" when the garbage collector comes around and clears out all unreferenced objects.

That being said, try this:

public void destroy() {     System.exit( 0 ); }