* David Holmes: > More accurately soft-references will be cleared before throwing an OOME > due to Java heap exhaustion. There are other things that can throw OOME > (like your array example, or "throw new OutOfMemoryError();") that don't > correspond to heap exhaustion and and so soft-reference clearing doesn't > enter the picture.
I think it's still a bug in the spec due to the way it is worded.
