[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss ESB Development] - Performance: Extracting security credentials from requests

As part of the performance work that David and I are working on I've been looking into ways to improve the performance when we extract security credentials from different message and transport protocols. Currently we are using Smooks and the reason for that choice simply that was the quickest for me to implement. I've now looked at using Stax and also at SXC (http://sxc.codehaus.org/Home) I've taken one of the extractors which extract the Username element data and the Password elements data from a SOAP Security Header. The SOAP message is a String in this case and not a SOAPMessage object instance. Following are the result that I've gathered: Smooks ====== Test: WSSecurityInfoExtractorUnitTest.extractUserPassSecurityInfo 1ms 1969497ns 1ms 1985770ns 2ms 2154726ns 2ms 2325567ns 2ms 2807360ns 3ms 3157355ns 5ms 5156815ns 6ms 6649339ns 7ms 7066943ns 11ms 11248229ns SXC === Test: WSSecurityInfoExtractorSXCUnitTest.extractUserPassSecurityInfo 16ms 16576305ns 18ms 18043196ns 23ms 23826942ns 24ms 24942720ns 28ms 28823322ns 31ms 31506149ns 32ms 32187070ns 45ms 45235491ns 59ms 59891821ns 93ms 93950116ns Stax ==== Test: WSSecurityInfoExtractorStaxUnitTest.extractUserPassSecurityInfo 0ms 641808ns 0ms 647256ns 0ms 662552ns 0ms 666883ns 0ms 675334ns 0ms 678756ns 0ms 720663ns 0ms 743293ns 1ms 1771975ns 11ms 11028217ns So I think Stax is the way to go here. If no one objects I'll create a Jira for this. /Daniel View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...