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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-393:
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I'm willing to bet that he has a copy of Xerces that doesn't support XIncludes 
in lib/endorsed. I'll add some code to handle this since.
                
> Low initialization performance when using Log4J with jar packages
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-393
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-393
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Configurators, Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta8
>            Reporter: Philipp Hedwig
>              Labels: performance
>             Fix For: 2.0-beta9
>
>
> We discovered a huge performance difference when initializing Log4J with 
> deployed jar packages compared to using it directly with normal class files.
> As it seems,
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.ResolverUtil#loadImplementationsInJar_
> is way slower than its counterpart
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.ResolverUtil#loadImplementationsInDirectory_
> and since this method gets called a few hundred times at initialization in 
> this project, initialization of Log4J took more than 2 minutes with jar 
> packages, compared to a few seconds with class files.
> The performance issue was already mentioned in 
> [LOG4J2-184|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-184], only without 
> the jar problem.
> The solution to [LOG4J2-175|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-175] 
> might cause this, but we are unsure why the methods exactly get called this 
> often.
> I just can tell that
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginManager#collectPlugins()_ 
> gets called VERY often via
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration#getPluginManager_, 
> which gets called by
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfiguration#constructHierarchy_
> And _collectPlugins()_ is remapped to _collectPlugins(boolean preLoad, final 
> String pkgs)_ with _collectPlugins(true, null);_. I'm unsure what this 
> preLoad is for, since it gets overridden with false and apparently no kind of 
> caching is used. In this method, _resolver.findInPackage(test, pkg);_ takes a 
> whole lot of time searching within the jars, as described in the beginning.
> The only way to work around this was for us to extract the custom appender in 
> a sperate ant build target, and with this in a seperate jar, to minimize the 
> size of the jar, reducing the search time.
> Can you cache things and maybe reduce the calls to _collectPlugins()_? I 
> don't see the probability of changing plugins during initialization as 
> described in LOG4J2-175 or the comment in 
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.BaseConfiguration#getPluginManager_.
> Introducing a variable for the plugin manager within the for loop in 
> _org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.XMLConfiguration#constructHierarchy_ 
> might be a good idea!

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