On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM, David M. Lloyd <david.ll...@redhat.com> wrote: > Seems like a reasonable alternate approach, *however* I think there ought to > be a way to clear the reference as well,
Do you have a use case? *If* we wanted to support removals (I don't think we should), I would do something like this: public class ClassLoader { public Reference<?> keepReferenceTo(Object o) { ... } ... } You could call clear() on the returned reference to clear the ClassLoader's reference. Internally, it would use some sort of CAS doubly-linked list. Bob