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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-6200: -------------------------------------- sounds reasonable to me :). The resulting object might need to be deep-copied in case there's updating of it (in potentially parallel threads). Patches / pull requests appreciated. > Constructing aggregate engines is slow > -------------------------------------- > > Key: UIMA-6200 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6200 > Project: UIMA > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core Java Framework > Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.10.5SDK > > Attachments: Screenshot 2020-03-15 at 18.52.48.png > > > Creating an aggregate engine is slow because every time a default fixed flow > descriptor is loaded from the classpath as XML and parsed. > *FixedFlowController* > {code} > public static FlowControllerDescription getDescription() { > URL descUrl = FixedFlowController.class > .getResource("/org/apache/uima/flow/FixedFlowController.xml"); > FlowControllerDescription desc; > try { > desc = (FlowControllerDescription) UIMAFramework.getXMLParser().parse( > new XMLInputSource(descUrl)); > } catch (InvalidXMLException e) { > throw new UIMARuntimeException(e); > } catch (IOException e) { > throw new UIMARuntimeException(e); > } > return desc; > } > {code} > IMHO, this should be loaded once and then cached permanently - or be > constructed completely programmatically (also once!) and never loaded at all. > !Screenshot 2020-03-15 at 18.52.48.png! -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)