Parser Pooling with JDOM

[Mahesh Trikannad]

Hi ,

I have heard that pooling the parser or using the same parser by making it a static object, can improve the performance. Is that true.

Iam using JDOM. When I get a XML string as input, Iam going to use SAXBuilder to create a Document. Does it make sense to reuse the SAXBuilder by creating one instance.

[William Brogden]

Does it make sense?
Seems to me, that compared to all the other time consuming things involved in parsing XML, it is not worth the trouble. Maybe if you were sure that only one Thread could possibly be using the instance, and that Thread had to do several documents.
If you find any real benchmark tests that give a significant saving, I'd love to hear about it.
Bill