The classfile API proposal notes that class file generation, parsing, and instrumentation are ubiquitous in the Java ecosystem, with many tools and libraries needing to process class files.

Listing 1 shows a possible implementation for the BeanXMLMapping component. This particular implementation uses the JOX (Java Objects in XML) library. You can develop other implementations of this ...

Parallelizing the actual parsing is probably a bad idea, especially as SAX parsing is fast.<BR><BR>Of course, I'm wary as to the actual benefits of parallelizing this in the first place.