JAXB creating context and marshallers cost

Question

The question is a bit theoretical, what is the cost of creating JAXB context, marshaller and unmarshaller?

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Answer 1

Ideally, you should have a singleton JAXBContext and local instances of Marshaller and Unmarshaller.

JAXBContext instances are thread-safe while Marshaller and Unmarshaller instances are not thread-safe and should never be shared across threads.