Tim Tripcony’s incinerate function elegantly batch recycles Domino Objects in Java

I recently was surfing through Stackoverflow and I hit a response from Tim Tripcony on this post: What is the best way to recycle Domino Objects in Java Beans

He published a small helper function to recycle an arbitrary number of Domino objects. It’s so simple, and so well written, that I thought it deserved a post of its own. Here it is in all its glory:

[sourcecode language=”java”]
private void incinerate(Object… dominoObjects) {
for (Object dominoObject : dominoObjects) {
if (null != dominoObject) {
if (dominoObject instanceof Base) {
try {
((Base)dominoObject).recycle();
} catch (NotesException recycleSucks) {
// optionally log exception
}
}
}
}
}
[/sourcecode]

And it’s used like this:
[sourcecode language=”java”]
Database wDb = null;
View wView = null;
Document wDoc = null;
try {
// your code here
} catch (NotesException ne) {
// do error handling
} finally {
incinerate(wDoc, wView, wDb);
}
[/sourcecode]

I find the function elegant in many ways; the function and the variables are clearly named, Tim uses variable-length argument lists (thats the Object… part with the ellipsis), the new for-each iteration, plus there is some humour. Thanks, Tim.