Hello Stuart,

There is one more thread safety issue in the XML scheme.
The issue with the reproducer is filed at 
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8355006

Thank you
Alexey

> On 21 Oct 2025, at 20:51, Stuart Marks <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Elliot,
> 
> Yes, this is indeed a bug. It seems that most of the XML and JAXP APIs aren't
> thread-safe and so must be used in a thread-confined manner. (Hm, I can't 
> seem to
> find anything in the specifications about this... another thing to look at.) 
> Most
> JAXP objects are constructed on demand. However, as you point out they end up 
> using
> a shared CatalogImpl instance that represents the built-in JDK catalog. Since
> catalog resolution mutates this object, it's a thread-safety issue.
> 
> I've filed
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8370379
> 
> to cover this issue. Thanks for reporting it!
> 
> s'marks
> 
> On 10/14/25 3:07 PM, Elliot Barlas wrote:
>> Hello core-libs-dev!
>> 
>> There appears to be a thread-safety bug in
>> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager related to the
>> introduction of the following field[1] in the following commit[2].
>> 
>> [1] CatalogResolver fDefCR // the default JDK Catalog Resolver
>> 
>> [2] 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/93bdc2a6db91a95d6ee52ec92080e586c694dad5
>> 
>> Multiple threads executing the following sample code use the same underlying
>> javax.xml.catalog.CatalogImpl obtained from
>> JdkXmlConfig.getInstance().getJdkCatalog(). CatalogImpl is not thread safe. 
>> The
>> resolveEntity method mutates the underlying JDK catalog[3].
>> 
>> [3]
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/catalog/CatalogImpl.java#L279
>> 
>> XMLEntityManager entityManager = new XMLEntityManager();
>> XMLResourceIdentifier resourceIdentifier = new XMLResourceIdentifierImpl(
>>        "http://example.com/dtd/sample.dtd";,
>>        "sample.dtd",
>>        "http://example.com/base/";,
>>        "http://example.com/base/sample.dtd";);
>> entityManager.resolveEntity(resourceIdentifier);
>> 
>> Prior to the commit above, this code did not access a shared JDK CatalogImpl.
>> 
>> -Elliot Barlas

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