http://www.cafeaulait.org/#news2003December2 Mark Lindner has posted the Jolt JVM Daemon 0.3 [1], a wrapper program for Linux and Solaris that enables multiple invocations of java, javac, javadoc, and jar to reuse the same virtual machine for faster startup. Given the problems caused already by classpath and clasl loader issues, and the number of times I've had to specify fork="true" in my ant build files to make everything work, I'm not sure this is such a good idea.
[1] http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/jolt/ http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/jolt/ Overview jolt is a Java Virtual Machine Daemon. This program provides a way to invoke the JDK tools javac, javadoc, and jar from the command line while reusing the same JVM instance across invocations. It is intended primarily for use as a helper tool to make compilation of Java code with make as fast as (and perhaps faster than) with Jakarta Ant. Documentation Documentation is included in the distribution in the form of a manpage. Here is a link to the documentation in PDF [1] and PS [2] form. Download Download [3] Jolt now! (Approximately 100K) Source code and full documentation is included. [1] http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/jolt/jolt.pdf [2] http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/jolt/jolt.ps [3] http://www2.dystance.net:8080/software/jolt/jolt-0.4.tar.gz Jan
