Closing and disposing a JFrame and ChartPanel

[sturodgers]

In my application, the user can create and use multiple charts simultaneously. Currently, each chart is in its own JFrame with DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE set as its default close action.

When closing and disposing of a JFrame and ChartPanel,
is a call to dispose() sufficient to free up all resources, listeners, etc, or should I handle all the calls to components (such as the plot, the data series, tool tip generator, url generator, axis, etc) individually?

Thank you,
Stu

[david.gilbert]

As long as you don't keep any other references to the chart or its subcomponents, then disposing of the JFrame / ChartPanel should be enough to let the garbage collector do its work.