Re: Recommended way to clean up a component?

> I have some components that retrieve and store a copy of a db object in
> a local variable which is accessed many times by the component. The
> object is lazily loaded like this:
>
> Object getCachedDBObject() {
> 	if (m_cachedDBObject == null) {
> 		m_cachedDBObject = retrieveObjectFromDB();
> 	}
> 	return m_cachedDBObject;
> }
>
> At the end of the current cycle, m_cachedDBObject needs to be nulled out
> so the next time the component is used it'll get a new copy.

So far I've used the method initialize() on the Page which is called from
the constructor as well as from detach(). It should do what you want.

-dirk

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