- Source: Soft reference
A soft reference is a reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively. The soft reference is one of the strengths or levels of 'non strong' reference defined in the Java programming language, the others being weak and phantom. In order from strongest to weakest, they are: strong, soft, weak, phantom.
Soft references behave almost identically to weak references. Soft and weak references provide two quasi-priorities for non-strongly referenced objects: the garbage collector will always collect weakly referenced objects, but will only collect softly referenced objects when its algorithms decide that memory is low enough to warrant it.
Soft references may be used, for example, to write a free memory sensitive cache such that cached objects are kept until there is not enough heap space. In some cases weakly referenced objects may be reclaimed too quickly to make such a cache useful.
See also
Circular reference
Phantom reference
Weak reference
External links
Java developer article: 'Reference Objects and Garbage Collection'
Nicholas, Ethan (May 4, 2006). "Understanding Weak References". java.net. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
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