[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[Tethys]

"Andy Farnsworth" writes:

>It is also the reason and justification for an application server
>that will load, run, and keep resident in memory your java
>applications for the backend of your web site.

Even for persistent server side applications, Java's slow startup times
are a major problem. For example, whenever we deploy a new servlet, we
need to restart tomcat (yes, I know this is no longer true with Tomcat 4,
but we're still using Tomcat 3 for now). That restart takes 2 or 3 minutes
before it's up and running, which means an unacceptable outage on our
production site.

Now I don't want to lay all of the blame on Java -- we also have a back
end app server written in Java that restart's in a couple of seconds, so
I suspect at least part of it is that Tomcat is just very poorly written.
But as an observation, Java seems to make it easy to write poor code...

Tet

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