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+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tools.ant.util;
+
+
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+
+/**
+ * These classes are part of some code to reduce memory leaks by only
+ * retaining weak references to things
+ * on Java1.2+, and yet still work (with leaky hard references) on Java1.1.
+ * Now that Ant is 1.2+ only,
+ * life is simpler and none of the classes are needed any more.
+ *
+ * They are only retained in case a third-party task uses them
+ * @since ant1.6
+ * @see org.apache.tools.ant.util.optional.WeakishReference12
+ * @deprecated deprecated 1.7; will be removed in Ant1.8
+ *             Just use {@link java.lang.ref.WeakReference} directly.
+ */
+public class WeakishReference  {
+
+
+    private WeakReference weakref;
+
+    /**
+     * create a new soft reference, which is bound to a
+     * Weak reference inside
+     *
+     * @param reference
+     * @see java.lang.ref.WeakReference
+     */
+    WeakishReference(Object reference) {
+        this.weakref = new WeakReference(reference);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns this reference object's referent.  If this reference object has
+     * been cleared, then this method returns <code>null</code>.
+     *
+     * @return The object to which this reference refers, or
+     *         <code>null</code> if this reference object has been cleared.
+     */
+    public Object get() {
+        return weakref.get();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * create the appropriate type of reference for the java version
+     * @param object the object that the reference will refer to.
+     * @return reference to the Object.
+     */
+    public static WeakishReference createReference(Object object) {
+            return new WeakishReference(object);
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * This was a hard reference for Java 1.1. Since Ant1.7,
+     * @deprecated since 1.7.
+     *             Hopefully nobody is using this.
+     */
+    public static class HardReference extends WeakishReference {
+
+        /**
+         * constructor.
+         * @param object the object that the reference will refer to.
+         */
+        public HardReference(Object object) {
+            super(object);
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}