Emmanuel Bernard commented on Task BVAL-338

The Bean Validation provider must hold no references to any of the externally passed configuration objects after ValidatorFactory#close() was called, allowing for their safe disposal by the caller."

I am reluctant of adding this actually. It seems that it's the job of the GC to do that. And that seems like petty optimization to nullify references.
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