WebWork performance problems on issues Navigator

#webwork.configuration.class=com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.ApplicationPropertiesConfiguration,com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.JiraConfiguration
webwork.configuration.class=com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.CachedApplicationPropertiesConfiguration,com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.CachedJiraConfiguration

package com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork;

import com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.ApplicationPropertiesConfiguration;

public class CachedApplicationPropertiesConfiguration extends ApplicationPropertiesConfiguration implements DelegatedConfiguration {
    private final WebworkConfigurationCache config = new WebworkConfigurationCache(this);

    @Override
    public Object getImpl(String aName) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        return config.getImpl(aName);
    }

    @Override
    public void setImpl(String aName, Object aValue) throws IllegalArgumentException, UnsupportedOperationException {
        config.setImpl(aName, aValue);
    }

    public Object getDelegateImpl(String aName) {
        return super.getImpl(aName);
    }

    public void setDelegateImpl(String aName, Object aValue) {
        super.setImpl(aName, aValue);
    }
}

package  com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork;

import com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork.JiraConfiguration;

public class CachedJiraConfiguration extends JiraConfiguration implements DelegatedConfiguration {
    private final WebworkConfigurationCache cache = new WebworkConfigurationCache(this);

    @Override
    public Object getImpl(String aName) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        return cache.getImpl(aName);
    }

    @Override
    public void setImpl(String aName, Object aValue) throws IllegalArgumentException, UnsupportedOperationException {
        cache.setImpl(aName, aValue);
    }

    public Object getDelegateImpl(String aName) {
        return super.getImpl(aName);
    }

    public void setDelegateImpl(String aName, Object aValue) {
        super.setImpl(aName, aValue);
    }
}

package com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork;

public interface DelegatedConfiguration {
    Object getDelegateImpl(String aName);

    void setDelegateImpl(String aName, Object aValue);
}

package com.atlassian.jira.config.webwork;

import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
import java.util.*;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

/**
 * Configuration cache to increase webwork configuration.
 * This method cache all requests to webwork config. The webwork config is used
 * exception flow for "no value" mark. But it bottle neck for JIRA.
 *
 * @author Alexey Efimov
 */
public class WebworkConfigurationCache {
    private static final List<String> NULLABLE = Arrays.asList(
            "webwork.util.SubsetIteratorFilter.success",
            "util.UserAction.success"
    );
    private static final String WEBWORK_ACTION_EXTENSION = "webwork.action.extension";
    private static final String DEFAULT_WEBWORK_ACTION_EXTENSION_VALUE = "jspa";
    private static final String WEBWORK_CONFIGURATION_XML_RELOAD = "webwork.configuration.xml.reload";
    private static final String DEFAULT_WEBWORK_CONFIGURATION_XML_RELOAD_VALUE = Boolean.FALSE.toString();

    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(WebworkConfigurationCache.class);
    private final DelegatedConfiguration delegate;
    private final Cache[] cache = {new Cache(), new Cache()};

    public WebworkConfigurationCache(DelegatedConfiguration delegate) {
        this.delegate = delegate;
    }

    public Object getImpl(String aName) throws IllegalArgumentException {
        if (contains(aName)) {
            return get(aName);
        }
        try {
            return getAndCache(aName);
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            // This is root of really low performance (see webwork.config.XMLActionConfiguration.getImpl)
            if (WEBWORK_CONFIGURATION_XML_RELOAD.equals(aName)) {
                cache(aName, DEFAULT_WEBWORK_CONFIGURATION_XML_RELOAD_VALUE);
            } else if (WEBWORK_ACTION_EXTENSION.equals(aName)) {
                cache(aName, DEFAULT_WEBWORK_ACTION_EXTENSION_VALUE);
            } else if (NULLABLE.contains(aName)) {
                // This is an approved nullable cache 
                cache(aName, null);
            }
            throw e;
        }
    }

    private Object get(String aName) {
        return cache[cache.length - 1].get(aName);
    }

    private boolean contains(String aName) {
        return cache[cache.length - 1].contains(aName);
    }

    private Object getAndCache(String aName) {
        Object impl = delegate.getDelegateImpl(aName);
        cache(aName, impl);
        return impl;
    }

    public void setImpl(String aName, Object aValue) throws IllegalArgumentException, UnsupportedOperationException {
        delegate.setDelegateImpl(aName, aValue);
        cache(aName, aValue);
    }

    private Object cache(String aName, Object aValue) {
        // Check existing levels of cache
        int start = 0;
        while (start < cache.length && cache[start].same(aName, aValue)) {
            start++;
        }
        // Fill first empty level
        if (start < cache.length) {
            if (start == cache.length - 1) {
                // Only last level is used for reading from cache
                LOG.info(String.format("Put to cache key %s and value %s", aName, aValue));
            }
            cache[start].set(aName, aValue);
        }
        // And clear last
        for (int i = start + 1; i < cache.length; i++) {
            cache[i].remove(aName);
        }
        return aValue;
    }

    private static final class Cache {
        public final Set<String> nullCache = new HashSet<String>();
        public final Map<String, SoftReference<Object>> cache = new HashMap<String, SoftReference<Object>>();

        public boolean contains(String key) {
            if (nullCache.contains(key)) {
                return true;
            }
            SoftReference<Object> reference = cache.get(key);
            if (reference != null) {
                Object v = reference.get();
                if (v != null) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }

        public boolean same(String key, Object value) {
            if (contains(key)) {
                Object v = get(key);
                return value == null && v == null || value != null && value.equals(v);
            }
            return false;
        }

        public Object get(String key) {
            if (nullCache.contains(key)) {
                return null;
            }
            SoftReference<Object> reference = cache.get(key);
            if (reference != null) {
                Object v = reference.get();
                if (v != null) {
                    return v;
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

        public void set(String key, Object value) {
            if (value != null) {
                nullCache.remove(key);
                cache.put(key, new SoftReference<Object>(value));
            } else {
                cache.remove(key);
                nullCache.add(key);
            }
        }

        public void remove(String key) {
            nullCache.remove(key);
            cache.remove(key);
        }
    }
}