How to fix pmd violation “NullAssignment”?

Question

PMD report NullAssignment of the following code, what is the best practice to fix it?

Assigning an Object to null is a code smell. Consider refactoring.

Answer 1

  Assigning an Object to null is a code smell.

IMHO

After setting the Object/variable to null you can call System.gc() which forces the garbage collector to run Right Now.

I believe there will be no violations and code smell in that.