Will an object declared in method subject to garbage collection?

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Published on 2010-03-20T09:47:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 9:51 UTC
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Consider an object declared in a method:

public void foo() {
    Object obj = new Object();

    // A long run job that consumes tons of memory and 
    // triggers garbage collection
}

Is obj subject to garbage collection?

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