Garbage Collection and NSNetService

FROM : August Trometer
DATE : Sun Nov 11 17:37:07 2007

Hello!

I'm trying to wrap my head around Garbage Collection, but I'm baffled 
by the behavior of some of my objects. For example, I am trying to 
publish a Bon Jour service. I have an object that does this, 
BJController. It is instantiated within the Nib and the service is 
published during awakeFromNib

In my .h file, I have:

@property (retain) NSNetService *service;

and in the .m file:

@synthesize service;


When I publish the service I use:


self.service = [[NSNetService alloc] initWithDomain:@"" 
type:@"_BJTest._tcp" name:@"Just a Test" port:5260];
   
[self.service setDelegate:self];
[self.service publish];


Now, as long as I keep Garbage Collection turned off, this works fine. 
When I turn it on, however, the service object seems to evaporate 
before the service is published, and my NSNetService delegate methods 
never get called at all.

I've been through the GC docs, and I'm assuming it's got something to 
do with a weak reference somewhere. But I can't seem to figure out 
where that would be.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

August