Performance approving a notification

We have a problem with the performance of Oracle workflow. I have worked with workflow at other companies and never experienced this problem, so i think it must be some kind of setting.
Setting: workflow APINV, approve a payables invoices, AME is also used.
When we open a notification and try to approve the notification it takes more than 15 seconds for the notification to get approved. In the left of the bottom of the browser i see the workflow is trying to contact the jsp for approval, but for some reason it takes a long time. After the jsp is found the approval is executed immediately.
Is there anybody who have faced a similar issue and knows about a possible cause?
Maybe it is a coincidence but the performance when opening a workflow with the workflow builder is very slow. I don't know if this is related.\
Any help/ suggestion is welcome!
Kind regards Jordy Arbouw

Hi Jordy,
This may be a perception issue - the workflow could be performing a lot of complex processing once the notification has been responded to. This will take place in the same database session as the user, until it hits a point after which the workflow cannot progress.
If you are in a development environment, try customizing the workflow and drop in a standard defer activity after the notification. This will force the workflow into the background (you will need to schedule a background engine to progress the flow further), but will at least point you to whether the system genuinely is slow, or whether the workflow is running some extra logic while the user is still connected to the Workflow engine.
HTH,
Matt
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