java 8u31 plugin causes signed applets to load much slower

Question

i have noticed that signed applets are loaded much slower with the latest plugin (included in java 8u31 and 7u75). I have debugged the situation quite a lot and i found out that

Answer 1

Have you been able to solve this issue? Have you had a reaction from Oracle?

UPDATE START

• I've tried everything I can think of and haven't managed to solve the issue, so I posted my own question on this issue.

• A similar bug report can be found here and is backported to at least Java 8u51 which I tested. Yet again they managed to increase startup time for our application.

END UPDATE

We are using Java Web Start for an Eclipse RCP-based application with jars that are all signed. Startup time is 8s within the IDE, Java version doesn't seem to matter here. With web start the story is different. It becomes (much) worse with every Java update:

• 7u?? (<60): +2s (10s)
• 7u60: +5s (13s)
• 7u75: +15s (23s)
• 8u31: +12s (20s)
• 8u40: +21s (29s)
• 8u51: +23s (31s)