Hi all In one of our project we spotted an intensive usage of ZipFile.getEntry() due to Felix trying to access the resource associated with a class when the class is not defined yet. As the requested resource is not boot delegated, nor imported and neither inside of the bundle, getEntry() returns null and Felix continue to follow its classloading algorithm. But trying to access the resource is time consumming, and the impact is bigger on performance when the same resource is requested for each of our request.
I agree that we could fix this by being more smart in our usage to avoid theses error cases, but do you think it could be valuable for Felix to keep a "cache" of failed resource request, so that, next time Felix try to request the resource from the Bundle's content, we simply avoid this step and move forward ? I feel that it should be quite easy to implement that behavior, but before starting this task, I want to have your feedback. So WDYT ? --G
