Hi Seán,
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8223260.v1/webrev/ A WeakHashKey with the TCCL as the key should be okay here.
If the TCCL is the key then there are good chances that the concrete factory class is expected to be loaded by the TCCL. If that happens then the value will reference the key and nothing will ever get garbage collected. So if I'm reading things rights this will not work as expected? best regards, -- daniel
