Greetings

I am in a situation where I need to know the number of references to a class' object. To explain, I have an array of class objects and I occasionally process this array. But if a particular object in this array is not being garbage collected just because it is part of this array, I would like to loose that object by making it null.

So either I need to find out the number of references to that object and in case there is only one reference, I force the object null. If this is not possible, I am sure there would be alternative solutions since this should be a common situation faced by programmers.

Please help.

Regards
- Cherry