Java: Why does this not get garbage collected?

Question

Quick question about the theory of GCing. I have the following method. It runs, and exits the method. How come even after GC is run, the timer still exists and keeps \"TI

Answer 1

The timer's not being garbage collected because it's still running -- some other object (such as the thread scheduler) still has a reference to it, which was probably created inside scheduleAtFixedRate().