Performance Factors of Proxy Objects in the Eclipse Modeling Framework

Model-driven engineering provides several benefits. A widely used modeling framework is the Eclipse Modeling Framework. It offers a default serialization and includes a proxy mechanism to lazy load models. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no investigation how the proxy mechanism impacts the performance. Therefore, factors influencing the performance of the proxy mechanism are identified and experimentally investigated. Among these factors, the proxy resolution, consisting of the loading of another model and searching within this model, has an impact.