 However this class requires java 1.3 or later (due to its use
 of <code>java.lang.ref.WeakReference</code> and associates).
 And by the way, this extends <code>Hashtable</code> rather than <code>HashMap</code>
 for backwards compatibility reasons. See the documentation
 for method <code>LogFactory.createFactoryStore</code> for more details.
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 The reason all this is necessary is due to a issue which
 arises during hot deploy in a J2EE-like containers.
 Each component running in the container owns one or