<Swing Dev> Is the following code supposed to leak?

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

When running the Notepad-Demo shipped with the JDK on caciocavallo-web, I
noticed memory leaks caused by PropertyChangeListeners added to Actions
defined in DefaultEditorKit. Those actions are referenced by a static field
(defaultActions).

I was able to distill the problem down to the following testcase, is the
following code really supposed to leak memory:

 while(true) {
       final byte[] b = new byte[1000000];

       new JTextArea().getActions()[0].addPropertyChangeListener(new
PropertyChangeListener() {
            public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
               b[0] = 0; //Listener will live forever, and so Objects
referenced from here
            }
            });
    }

Thanks, Clemens
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