[jdom-interest] Ampersand question

[Alex Chaffee]

> 	  Also, we are throwing around a combination of strings and JDOM 
> documents.  [...]

Your need is clear, and very compelling.  One important point I'd like
to emphasize:

Strings are SLOW.

Moreover, they fill up the heap like crazy.  The architecture you
described will probably be very clean and straightforward to write,
and perform very poorly.

You might be better advised to use streams and buffers rather than
generating a new String for every document.

Likewise, when reading a blob from the DB, you get it as a stream; why
bother going through the extra step of converting it into a string,
then parsing the string, when you can just parse it directly as a
stream?  Same goes for writing to the DB.

 - Alex

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