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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+
+package sax;
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
+
+import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.Listeners;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8173390
+ * @library /javax/xml/jaxp/libs /javax/xml/jaxp/unittest
+ * @run testng/othervm -DrunSecMngr=true sax.SymbolTableResetTest
+ * @run testng/othervm sax.SymbolTableResetTest
+ * @summary Test that SAXParser reallocates symbol table during
+ *          subsequent parse operations
+ */
+@Listeners({jaxp.library.BasePolicy.class})
+public class SymbolTableResetTest {
+
+    /*
+     * Test mimics the SAXParser usage in SAAJ-RI that reuses the
+     * parsers from the internal pool. To avoid memory leaks, symbol
+     * table associated with the parser should be reallocated during each
+     * parse() operation.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testReset() throws Exception {
+        // Dummy xml input for parser
+        String input = "<dummy>Test</dummy>";
+        // Create SAXParser
+        SAXParserFactory  spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+        SAXParser p = spf.newSAXParser();
+        // First parse iteration
+        p.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(input)), new DefaultHandler());
+        // Get first symbol table reference
+        Object symTable1 = p.getProperty(SYMBOL_TABLE_PROPERTY);
+        p.reset();
+        // Second parse iteration
+        p.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(input)), new DefaultHandler());
+        // Get second symbol table reference
+        Object symTable2 = p.getProperty(SYMBOL_TABLE_PROPERTY);
+        // Output symbol table references to log
+        System.out.println("Symbol table reference after first parse operation:"+symTable1);
+        System.out.println("Symbol table reference after second parse operation:"+symTable2);
+        // Symbol table references should be different
+        Assert.assertNotEquals(symTable1, symTable2, "Symbol table refence is the same");
+    }
+
+    // Symbol table property
+    private static final String SYMBOL_TABLE_PROPERTY = "http://apache.org/xml/properties/internal/symbol-table";
+
+}