adding destroy() to streams

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/java/src/Ice/OutputStreamI.java b/java/src/Ice/OutputStreamI.java
index 2c040f7acbe..c3b82a3f3cc 100644
--- a/java/src/Ice/OutputStreamI.java
+++ b/java/src/Ice/OutputStreamI.java
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@ public class OutputStreamI implements OutputStream
     finalize()
         throws Throwable
     {
-        if(_os != null)
-        {
-            _os.destroy();
-        }
+        destroy();
     }
 
     public Communicator
@@ -186,12 +183,19 @@ public class OutputStreamI implements OutputStream
         byte[] result = new byte[buf.limit()];
         buf.get(result);
 
-        _os.destroy();
-        _os = null;
-
         return result;
     }
 
+    public void
+    destroy()
+    {
+        if(_os != null)
+        {
+            _os.destroy();
+            _os = null;
+        }
+    }
+
     private Communicator _communicator;
     private IceInternal.BasicOutputStream _os;
     private boolean _writeObjects;