Strange Loop

The Ghost in the Virtual Machine: A Reference to References

Have you ever wondered whether you should use a weak reference or a phantom reference? If you answered "yes" or "phantom who?" this is the session for you. It covers: The java.lang.ref API Its gotchas and pitfalls New APIs that address those gotchas and pitfalls Reference handling patterns and best practices MapMaker: a new concurrent map with support for strong, soft, or weak keys and values How references relate to collections, caching, concurrency, and class loaders And more Walk in with a working knowledge of the language, and walk out an expert in references, referents, reclamation, and other garbage collection necromancy.

Bob Lee

Bob Lee created the Jolt-award-winning Google Guice framework and now leads JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java). He represents Google on the JCP Executive Committee. Bob is also involved with JSR-166 (java.util.concurrent), Project Coin (small language changes), and JSR-294 (Java Modules).