Hi,

I have a problem where I do not know what the root cause actually is.

I create an instance of javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory and directly 
afterwards I parse a xsltSource:

protected synchronized Transformer getTransformer(Source xsltSource)
    throws TransformerConfigurationException {
    TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer(xsltSource);
    return transformer;
}

I am using the com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.Trans 
formerFactoryImpl com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.Trans formerImpl 
classes.
Which are the ones provided by the JDK.


Now I have a test that is part of the test suite. When I run that test 
standalone the code above takes around 1ms constantly.

When I run that test as part of my test suite it takes longer. This happens as 
well in eclipse as with gradle. The duration rises linear with the amount of 
tests that run before.

Its orders of magnitudes slower, like 10 - 1000 times, depending on how much 
tests run before that specific test.

Using a cached instance of the TransfomerFactory will cut the time the test 
takes in half. But the symptom remains the same.
I have been profiling it, but dont see anything suspicious, except the the test 
takes longer.

My first assumption was it had directly to do with the number of loaded 
classes, which it does not. Loading classes arbitrarily does not change the 
time the test needs.

Next I added the saxon parser and specifically used that one, but the symptom 
remains the same.

Also I figured out I have the same problem with this line of code:

SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();


Any ideas what might be the cause here?

Thanks,
Sven

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