[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (HV-479) Implement an eviction strategy for BeanMetaDataCache

Implement an eviction strategy for BeanMetaDataCache ---------------------------------------------------- Key: HV-479 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-479 Project: Hibernate Validator Issue Type: Improvement Components: engine Reporter: Gunnar Morling Fix For: 4.3.0.next In {{BeanMetaDataCache}} we have a map from {{Class}} to {{BeanMetaDataImpl}}. Currently there is no eviction strategy for this cache meaning entries will never be removed once they were added to the cache and the {{ValidatorFactoryImpl}} holding the cache exists. In particular this means that the concerned class objects never can be garbage-collected. This might cause problems in long-running applications (especially as there is typically one long-living {{ValidatorFactory}} instance per application). Maybe {{WeakHashMap}} or similar might be useful here.