Jeroen Frijters wrote: > There are several places in our codebase were we need/want to cache > stuff that is associated with a class or class loader. Currently these > places retain a strong reference to the class loader, which is not > correct, because the class loader should be garbage collectable. > > I cooked up proposal for an API to use for this and implemented it in > the three places I could think of off the top my head (serialization, > proxy and resource bundle). > > This is just a first stab, so no documentation and no change log entry > yet. Please comment on the idea and/or the API.
Dumb question.. why wouldn't it work to just use a WeakHashMap instead of a HashMap in all those places? -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com
