Re: [xmlvm-users] weak references

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On 23 Μαρ 2010, at 7:29 μ.μ., Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:

> Java will never stop surprise me!
> I really didn't know that it supported weak references!
> 
> Your idea is very good, I'll follow this path, then!
> 
> --
> Panayotis
> 
> 23 Μαρ 2010, 5:47 μ.μ., ο/η Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...> έγραψε:
> 
>>> although I am not sure that this is something that should be
>>> exposed in Java, but anyway.
>> 
>> Java is supposed to have weak references, isn't it?
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ref/WeakReference.html
>> So if you expose them to Java as the spec describes, it should just
>> be a good thing and make even more Java code work with XMLVM.
>> 
>> --tml


It seems that this was much easier than what I originally thought.
In parallel I have created a mechanism to store variables of category objects (or any other object anyway), since by definition in a category you won't be able to store other variables.
This is useful to clean up a bit with retained delegates that nobody releases them (and yes, I believe this code has less memory leaks than ever!)

Probably I should take down my old patch and release a new patch, with this improved memory management issues.

What others (i.e. the xmlvm team) think?
:D