Sorry, you're right. No WeakReferences on the class keys, rather a map is 
stored in a field of Class (similarly to ThreadLocal). BTW, this ClassValue 
was written by John Rose as part of JSR 292, and a very interesting 
implementation vis-a-vis concurrency

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:59:40 PM UTC+2, Jozef Wagner wrote:
>
> Well there is a remove method in ClassValue, 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassValue.html#remove(java.lang.Class)and
>  it seems that the cache is implemented in a way that it does not hold 
> class objects, thus it does not prevent class from GCing (the cached value 
> is stored in class object itself).
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant <
> abonnair...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to invalidate this cache?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ambrose
>>
>>

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