This could be actually...
However, after reading your e-mail, I tried it. I created an applet which was importing a lot of non-standard APIs and a lot of classes, and played a bit with the virus checker. I didn't have any problem nor slow down. But as your explanation seems most logical, I guess that it depends on the network options of the virus checker... This is interesting though. I will see with our clients if any of them experience slow applet startup and propose them to see if the anti-virus is the cause... This "problem" could be posted to some java site for general information !
For the signature, do you think the problem would be the same if when using the plug-in ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:14 PM
> To: Maxime Poulin; S.Ramaswamy
> Cc: 'ADVANCED-JAVA'; SERVLET-INTEREST (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Your advince on Servlet architecture
>
>
> S. Ramaswamy, Maxime,
>
> The long load time and startup delays you're experiencing
> remind me of what
> I used to see when I had a virus checker running on my system
> and launched
> an applet with lots of classes (it used Swing). The virus
> checker went wild
> checking each and every class file loaded from the archive.
> The count of
> individual checks went up by well over 10,000, if I recall
> correctly. I
> turned the virus checker off and it made a big difference in load and
> startup times.
>
> Another big time consumer is validating the signatures with
> signed applets.
> This was a Navigator-hosted applet. I don't know if the same costs are
> incurred for applets running under the Java plug-in.
>
> Perhaps these overheads are part of the delays you're seeing?
>
> Randy Schulz
> Teknowledge Corp.
> Palo Alto, CA USA
>
>
> At 08:09 AM 12/22/99 , you wrote:
> >> We are using the JDK 1.3 beta plugin on Windows right now.
> However we
> >> are having networking problems. When we load the applet
> >> inititally, the
> >> applet takes very lonnnnnnng time to load. For some time
> there is no
> >> activity at all. Then after about 1 min or so the applet
> >> STARTS! ...
>
