This might be a perfect use for JINI technology.
Image a JVM loaded a system boot as a daemon can be sent
java class to execute through a special class loader that is always
running.
Cheers
Chris
Context Grey wrote:
> I think this is a good idea-
>
> I've wanted to write little Unix-style utilities in java, but the
> startup overhead is quite large. As such a script written in
> tcl or something else "feels" much faster, even though in fact
> Java is considerably faster (some things like tcl are *thousands*
> of times slower than C, rather than being merely 10x).
>
> Some once told me this is the sort of thing you could do in Lisp &
> Scheme-
> i.e. create a new namespace, run a program in it, then discard the
> space and garbage collect.
>
> In java, one has some control over the class loader. Does anyone know
> if it is possible to write a "custom sandbox" to run a program in & then
> get rid of this space?
