From f27b9498be344ab57c169d6bcdf72ec159429aad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 00:22:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CachedIntrospectionResults uses SoftReference instead of
 WeakReference for non-cache-safe entries

Issue: SPR-11867
---
 .../org/springframework/beans/CachedIntrospectionResults.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/CachedIntrospectionResults.java b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/CachedIntrospectionResults.java
index 77175418ae1..10cb20d6df1 100644
--- a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/CachedIntrospectionResults.java
+++ b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/CachedIntrospectionResults.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
 import java.beans.Introspector;
 import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
 import java.lang.ref.Reference;
-import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ public class CachedIntrospectionResults {
 				}
 				results = new CachedIntrospectionResults(beanClass);
 				synchronized (classCache) {
-					classCache.put(beanClass, new WeakReference<CachedIntrospectionResults>(results));
+					classCache.put(beanClass, new SoftReference<CachedIntrospectionResults>(results));
 				}
 			}
 		}