I have a JFrame that accepts top-level drops of files. However after a drop has occurred, references to the frame are held indefinitely inside some Swing internal classes. I believe that disposing of the frame should release all of its resources, so what am I doing wrong?

Example

import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.TransferHandler;

public class DnDLeakTester extends JFrame {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new DnDLeakTester();

        //Prevent main from returning or the jvm will exit
        while (true) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(10000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

            }
        }
    }
    public DnDLeakTester() {
        super("I'm leaky");

        add(new JLabel("Drop stuff here"));

        setTransferHandler(new TransferHandler() {
            @Override
            public boolean canImport(final TransferSupport support) {
                return (support.isDrop() && support
                        .isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor));
            }

            @Override
            public boolean importData(final TransferSupport support) {
                if (!canImport(support)) {
                    return false;
                }

                try {
                    final List<File> files = (List<File>) 
                            support.getTransferable().getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor);

                    for (final File f : files) {
                        System.out.println(f.getName());
                    }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                return true;
            }
        });

        setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        pack();
        setVisible(true);
    }
}

To reproduce, run the code and drop some files on the frame. Close the frame so it's disposed of.

To verify the leak I take a heap dump using JConsole and analyse it with the Eclipse Memory Analysis tool. It shows that sun.awt.AppContext is holding a reference to the frame through its hashmap. It looks like TransferSupport is at fault.

What am I doing wrong? Should I be asking the DnD support code to clean itself up somehow?

I'm running JDK 1.6 update 19.