Archie Cobbs wrote: > 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?
Not a dumb question at all. That *would* work. The "problem" is that (at least on some runtimes) WeakHashMap is much more expensive than this approach. Regards, Jeroen
