Bug 73891

Summary:	Should not use String#intern()
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	3.1 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
See Also:	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532088
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Description Jerome Lanneluc

2004-09-14 12:32:08 EDT

I20040914

We should not use String#intern() as it can prevent the strings to be garbage 
collected on some VMs. Instead we should have our own WeakHashMap to intern 
strings.

Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc

2004-09-16 11:37:44 EDT

Implemented JavaModelManager#intern(String) that uses a WeakHashSet to intern 
strings.

Comment 2 Frederic Fusier

2004-09-23 10:48:46 EDT

Verified for 3.1 M2 with build I200409230010.