diff --git a/commons-vfs2/pom.xml b/commons-vfs2/pom.xml
index 3750a95fef..891d8c35a0 100644
--- a/commons-vfs2/pom.xml
+++ b/commons-vfs2/pom.xml
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@
       <artifactId>httpcore-nio</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- JMH Performance tests -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jmh-core</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <properties>
@@ -352,6 +358,66 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
+    <!-- Profile to build and run the benchmarks. Use 'mvn test -Pbenchmark', and add '-Dbenchmark=foo' to run only the foo benchmark -->
+    <profile>
+      <id>benchmark</id>
+
+      <properties>
+        <skipTests>true</skipTests>
+        <benchmark>org.apache</benchmark>
+      </properties>
+
+      <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jmh-generator-annprocess</artifactId>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <!-- Enable the compilation of the benchmarks -->
+          <plugin>
+            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons.compiler.version}</version>
+            <configuration combine.self="override">
+              <testIncludes>
+                <testInclude>**/*</testInclude>
+              </testIncludes>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+          <!-- Hook the benchmarks to the test phase -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>benchmark</id>
+                <phase>test</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>exec</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
+                  <executable>java</executable>
+                  <arguments>
+                    <argument>-classpath</argument>
+                    <classpath />
+                    <argument>org.openjdk.jmh.Main</argument>
+                    <argument>-rf</argument>
+                    <argument>json</argument>
+                    <argument>-rff</argument>
+                    <argument>target/jmh-result.json</argument>
+                    <argument>${benchmark}</argument>
+                  </arguments>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
   </profiles>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/UriParserBenchmark.java b/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/UriParserBenchmark.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb17e0057d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/provider/UriParserBenchmark.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider;
+
+import org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemException;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.*;
+
+@BenchmarkMode(Mode.Throughput)
+@Warmup(iterations = 2)
+@Measurement(iterations = 5)
+public class UriParserBenchmark {
+
+    private static final String PATH_TO_NORMALIZE = "file:///this/../is/a%2flong%2Fpath/./for testing/normlisePath%2fmethod.txt";
+
+    @Benchmark
+    public void normalisePath() throws FileSystemException {
+        StringBuilder path = new StringBuilder(PATH_TO_NORMALIZE);
+        UriParser.fixSeparators(path);
+        UriParser.normalisePath(path);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 59ad6961f1..5398547525 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -586,6 +586,19 @@
         <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
         <version>1.1.1</version>
       </dependency>
+      <!-- JMH Performance tests -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jmh-core</artifactId>
+        <version>1.37</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jmh-generator-annprocess</artifactId>
+        <version>1.37</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>