When does java deallocate memory for objects;

um i'm working on a midp application that is very memory consuming. i would like to optimise it and make it just the oposite of what it is. now i would like to know when does java dellocate memory for an object, is it when it can find no more references to that object? or some other time, well i know its not when it can find no more references to that object because i've already tried that.
or to make things simpler is there any explicit way to make java deallocate memory for a specific object, like if i have a thread, which is executing a while loop, and i want java to end the thread and free its memory. is there any way to do this?

I happen to have quite some J2ME experience and it's not overly wise to count on extensive garbage collection. The garbage collector in limited device VMs isnt as advanced as it's big brothers. Try to avoid excessive object allocation and reuse instances whenever possible.
As for garbage collection, objects will be garbage collected if they can no longer be reached by any of the active application threads and if the garbage collectors deems it necessary to collect garbage, which will probably be when free heap memory becomes sparse or when there's some idle time in your application.

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