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Subject: Re: Selecting XML Parsers
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:11:02 +0100
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 (Jose
 Alberto Fernandez's message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:28:16 -0000")
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jose Alberto Fernandez
<jalberto@cellectivity.com> wrote:

> Question 1: How important is caching here? I presume
> it is important.
> 
> Assuming it is important to cache, what I could do is use a static
> WeakHashMap (JDK 1.2) to keep the references based on the effective
> classloader to use.

Sounds OK (I'm not sure about the value of caching, though).

> Question 2: How good are we now at reusing classloaders?

We more or less never do 8-)

> I see we ask the project to construct a classloader based
> on a claspath, does the same classpath (or classpath-ref)
> will give you the same classloader instance? That would really
> be a good thing.

Not without further work, no.

> So, does any body object to this type of approach in principle?

Looks fine.

      Stefan

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