Performance Issue in JDK 21

[afattahi54]

Recently we have upgrade the struts 6.7.0 project from JDK 1.8 to JDK 21. ( The struts is using ognl 3.3.5 ). After upgrade we have faced performance issues on loading jsp files and running actions.

While googling to find some hints, we have find that others also have same issues when switching to struts 7.0, which of course they had JDK upgrade too.

A performance test at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-5505?jql=project%20%3D%20WW mentioned that the Ognl.getValue may have performance issues.

I tried to dig in Ognl.getValue code and the only thing that I guess is the the reflection mechanism which have changed from 1.8 to 21 may cause issues.

[lukaszlenart]

OGNL won't work on Java 21 because of SecurityManager which was removed in that version of Java. I already prepared a PR to deprecate support for SM in 3.4.x and then release a new 3.5.x version using Java 17 as minimum.

[afattahi54]

Thanks for the comment. Looking forward to the PR

Mean while, by "Don't work" that you have mentioned, I want to clarify that the we do not face any error or exception, the application works when the site load is low , but we face a drastic performance dropdown when the site load increases.

Can you also help me with these ( I can ask them in struts 2 jira too )

1. Will be a Struts 6.x.x release which work with OGNL 3.5.x and JDK 21 ? This will be a great help as it will break down the migration step in two distinct steps:
   1.1. First we will upgrade to jdk 21 on Struts 6
   1.2 Second we will upgrade to Struts 7
2. I see that Struts 7 uses OGNL 3.4.x. Does it mean that the Struts 7 also needs to be migrated to OGNL 3.5.x

[lukaszlenart]

This is wrong place to ask question about Struts.

[lukaszlenart]

And I would recommend to use a Java profiler (VisualVM should be good enough) to detect where is the problem - create a small app to reproduce the problem and profile it.