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Status Planned for future release
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 13, 2012

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EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'.
Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps.
Manually destroying widgets is time consuming on both development- and runtime.

We are convinced this should not be the developer's responsability and these practices do not match IBM's presentation of EGL being a high level programming language. In Java and Java script garbage collection is an automated process.

Ideally, EGL/RichUI generated code should automatically cut links to objects which are no longer needed, and enable the js-garbage collection to release / destroy these objects automatically.

Suggestion: it is common practise to append and remove children to parents. Could these actions be a good starting point to trigger this process?

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 17, 2021

    The feature that is described in this request is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 1, 2012

    We agree that this would be a valuable feature, and it is consistent with EGL's philosophy of shielding the developer from the underlying complexity.

    Doing the analysis to determine which objects are no longer needed will be quite complex, so

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