I'm new to the memory management of the iphone and had a question about standards/correctness.

My header file declares:

 IBOutlet UITabBarController *tabBarController;
 @property (nonatomic, retain) UITabBarController *tabBarController;

In my init() code I was doing something like the following:

self.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
[tabBarController release];
NSLog(@"Retain count of tbc: %d",[tabBarController retainCount]);

to get the retain count back to one. Is this correct from a standardization point of view? It just looked a bit different to me, but again I'm new to this.

Thanks