[jdom-interest] Speed issues

[MarkW]

Hi Paul,
might be something to do with the memory problem concerning StringBuffer
in JDK 1.4.1. It is used in SAXHandler to output the xml doc.
Try JDK 1.4.0 or I can supply you with a patched JDOM b8 which deals
with this problem.

Regards,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org 
> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hlasnicek
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:56 PM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Speed issues
> 
> 
> Hi, Let me give you an idea of what I am doing and then 
> present my problem.
> I am using jdk 1.4.1 and JDOM in a Unix environment.  My code 
> is middleware
> and communicates to the application through socket calls.  So 
> I create a
> document, add in all of the pieces and send the xml string 
> over the socket
> where it is parsed by a 'C' xml parser.  I also receive the 
> answer data as
> an xml string from the socket where I parse and send the data 
> to the user
> interface.
> 
> There are times that after I received a response, I have to 
> create a new
> document along with root and children and respond back to the 
> application.
> In all of this, speed is very important.
> 
> Here is my problem:  The first time that I create the 
> document, it takes
> well over 500 ms (sometimes up to 750 ms) just to create the 
> xml string, but
> when I have to create a new document to respond with, it only 
> takes about
> 150 ms.  This also happens when I parse the xml string that I 
> receive from
> the socket.  Why am I experiencing these huge differences in 
> time to create
> and parse?  What can I do to prevent this?  Is there a way to 
> initialize the
> document?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Hlasnicek
> 
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