In order to fully understand Java's garbage collection, we need to look at the entire life cycle of an object. Because the core of garbage collection is automatic in Java, it is not uncommon to see the terms garbage collection and memory management as assumed components of the object life cycle.
We will start our review of the object life cycle with object creation.
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