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Provides a Map where values are referenced either weakly or softly. This
can be used to cache immutable objects without preventing them from
being garbaged collected.

Concurrency and synchronisation of this class fallbacks to the Map
implementation passed in as the cache parameter in the constructor. For
example: use a Hashtable for synchronised access, a ConcurrentHashMap
for concurrent access, and a HashMap for single threaded access (make
sure to specify the argument indicating single thread use).

This implementation improves over
org.apache.commons.collections.map.ReferenceMap in that the
synchronisation and concurrency is determined through delegation to the
map supplied in the constructor as described above.

~mck

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