== Why is this an issue?

Before it reclaims storage from an object that is no longer referenced, the garbage collector calls `finalize()` on the object.

This is a good time to release resources held by the object.

Because the general contract is that the `finalize` method should only be called once per object, calling this method explicitly is misleading and does not respect this contract.

=== What is the potential impact?

An explicit call to an object's finalize method will perform operations that most likely were supposed to be performed only when the object was not referenced anymore by any thread.

Since it is an acceptable practice to override the finalize method in any subclass of `Object`, by invoking it explicitly, we will run code that was designed to only be ran at a different time.


=== Noncompliant code example

[source,java]
----
public void dispose() throws Throwable {
  this.finalize();                       // Noncompliant
}
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== Resources

* https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se17/html/jls-12.html#jls-12.6[docs.oracle.com] - Finalization of Class Instances
* CWE - https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586[CWE-586 - Explicit Call to Finalize()]
* https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/4jZGBQ[CERT, MET12-J.] - Do not use finalizers


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=== Message

Remove this call to finalize().


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 3 Jul 2013, 16:56:01 Freddy Mallet wrote:
Is implemented by \http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SONARJAVA-195

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