Does a PhantomReference being in a ReferenceQueue stop the PhantomReference from being GC'd?

Question

I\'m using the LWJGL libraries and unfortunately I need to free up texture/vbo buffers myself whenever a node in my scene graph needs to die, I can\'t even use finalize() method

Answer 1

PhantomReference object is added to the queue when the referenced object id GC'd, not the PhantomReference itself. If you don't add a PhantomReference to a List, there is no reference to PhantomReference object, and thus it is GC'd immediately and never makes into the queue.