Maybe Chet Haase's post may help you?
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2003/09/volatileimage_q.html
Q: What's with the extra null-check condition in createBackBuffer()?

As far as I understood after a quick read, flush() frees VRAM memory and 
nulling thus is superfluous. But nulling the reference possibly makes the java 
heap space faster available for the GC.
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