Maybe you could try Nailgun <http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/index.html>; if I understand correctly, its a C socket wrapper to simple Java socket server which holds JVM open. I've never actually used it, but sounds like you have a use case where it could be beneficial (assuming JVM init overhead is slowest part).
Good luck, - Luke On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Doug Carter <dcar...@mercycorps.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This may be off-topic for this list, but I need to start somewhere. > > I need a command line utility to do document format conversion, in a > batch mode environment. The batch process is a combination of steps, one > of which is the actual format conversion which is currently being done > by a collection of Linux binary converters like wvWare, pdftohtml, etc. > > I've put a shell script wrapper around the tika jar: > > java -jar tika-app.jar [infile] > [outfile] > > This works OK, but as you would imagine, it is much slower compared to > a Linux binary. > > Does anyone know of a way to improve the performance in a setup like > this? I know it goes against the whole philosophy of Java, but is there > a way to compile the Tika jar byte code into a native Linux binary? I've > taken a look at gcj, but it doesn't look like a simple re-compile. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA, > > Doug > >
