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| <p>A role and its base object form one conceptual entity. The garbage collector will see a role |
| and its base object as linked in a bidirectional manner. As a result, a role cannot be |
| garbage collected if its base is still reachable and vice versa. |
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| Internally a team manages its roles and corresponding bases using weak references. |
| When using one of the <code>getAllRoles(..)</code> |
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| the result may be non-deterministic because these internal structures |
| may hold weak references to objects that will be collected by the next run of the |
| garbage collector. We advise clients of <code>getAllRoles(..)</code> to call |
| <code>System.gc()</code> prior to calling <code>getAllRoles(..)</code> in order |
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