Hello, I debug servlets against TC 3.2 by starting the class org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat and against TC 4.0 by starting org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap with the -XDebug option directly from my development environment. With TC 4.0 it takes approx. 2 minutes until my first breakpoint is reached, with TC 3.2 it takes just a a few seconds. In normal operation theres no difference between 3.2 and 4.0 Does somebody has an idea for what it takes that long? Thanks for any help in advance. Reto Badertscher