SoftReferences and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Direct buffer memory

[Florian Weimer]

* David Holmes:

> More accurately soft-references will be cleared before throwing an OOME 
> due to Java heap exhaustion. There are other things that can throw OOME 
> (like your array example, or "throw new OutOfMemoryError();") that don't 
> correspond to heap exhaustion and and so soft-reference clearing doesn't 
> enter the picture.

I think it's still a bug in the spec due to the way it is worded.