Article:		Three Rules for Effective Exception Handling
Subject:		Not, reasonable application SHOULD catch it
Date:		2003-12-05 13:29:09
From:		jimothy
Response to: Not, reasonable application SHOULD catch it
My point was, any action to recover from or report an OutOfMemoryError (such as notifying the sysadmin) could also result in an OoME. I suppose there's no harm trying. But do keep in mind that the time between setting a reference to null and that reference being garbage collected is indeterminant.