Why is finalize not being called?

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There is a lot to finalize() method which is frankly a lot to write, but in short:

An object is in the finalized state if it is still unreachable after its finalize method, if any, has been run. A finalized object is awaiting deallocation. Note that the VM implementation controls when the finalizer is run. You are almost always better off doing your own cleanup instead of relying on a finalizer. Using a finalizer can also leave behind critical resources that won’t be recovered for an indeterminate amount of time.

In your case the reason it does not print is that you do not know when the finalizer thread will call the finalize() method. What is happening is that the program is terminating before anything can get printed. To check it:
edit the code inside main code by( NOTE: this does not guarrantee nor should you should ever rely on it but still it does prints some time)

for(int i =0;i<1000000;i++)
    {
        MultipleConstruct construct = new MultipleConstruct(3);
        construct = null;
    }

There are a lot of disadvantages of using a finalize() right from taking more time in object construction to possibility of memory leakage and memory starvation. If you strongly refer to the same object inside the finalize() then it is never called the second time and thus can leave system in undesired state etc etc etc…
The only place where you should use finalize() is as a safety net to dispose any resources like InputStream uses it to close (which again there is no guarrantee that it will will br run when your program is still alive). Another place to use it is while using natives where garbage collector has no control.

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