After you have finished using an EAServer component, you can explicitly destroy the EAServer proxy object by using the DESTROY statement, or you can let PowerBuilder’s garbage collection facility clear the object out of memory for you automatically. In either case, the destruction of the client-side proxy object has no effect on the lifecycle of the server component. Destruction of the server component is handled by EAServer.
If the Automatic Demarcation/Deactivation setting is disabled for a component, and you close the client application while the component is still bound to the client (the component did not call SetComplete or SetAbort), the component is not deactivated. To ensure that the component instance is deactivated, you can do one of the following things:
In the Close event of the client application, invoke a method of the server component that deactivates the component (by calling SetComplete or SetAbort).
Set the Timeout property for the component to a small positive value.
