XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:

> --- Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2/7/06, Nils Kilden-Pedersen <nilskp AT gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 2/7/06, Steve Loughran
> > <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The serialisation is in the generation of random nos
> > from the feed.
> >
> > The static generator uses a shared random number
> > generator, of type
> > SecureRandom. If you follow its code:
> >
> >     synchronized public void nextBytes(byte[] bytes)
> > {
> >    ...
> >     }
>
> Ok. Fair enough. In practice the default SecureRandom
> doesn't halt that long (at least it didn't last I
> tried it... but I didn't run out of neutrinos ;) ).
> But I guess there's one more potential reason not to
> use Sun's impl then.

In JDK < 1.4 the default secure random config didn't delegate to dev/ 
random or equivalent, and initializing a new SecureRandom() would  
typically take several seconds. It's gotten much better since then.  
BTW, since we're already way off-topic anyway: This appeared to be  
the main reason it took ages to start up tomcat in https mode.

Wolfgang.