java.util.zip in Thread Dump ?

[Ravi Kumar]

When i do a thread dump on my java application i often see the following in the thread dump :
(This came as a surprise to me as to why is java.util.zip being called ?). My application is simply creating some xml documents etc.. and has nothing to do with zip files.

Is this any kind of memory problem ? Would it cause performance issues etc. ?

The Thread Dump copied below :

at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes(Native Method)

at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Inflater.java:219)

- locked <359967e8> (a java.util.zip.Inflater)

at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInputStream.java:128)

at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$CharsetSD.readBytes(StreamDecoder.java:408)

at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder$CharsetSD.implRead(StreamDecoder.java:450)

at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:182)

- locked <57b70d68> (a java.io.InputStreamReader)

at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:167)

at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:136)

at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:299)

- locked <57b70d68> (a java.io.InputStreamReader)

at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:362)

at javax.xml.parsers.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:168)

at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:93)

at com.mypackage.MyDocument.createDocument(MyDocument.java:203)

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

The XML machinery is reading configuration information out of a text file inside the JAR file it comes packaged in. The ZIP and JAR formats are identical, so java.util.zip is used to read JARs.