I have been investigating ways of improving the load times of our web applets and with the help of a Sun developer the following RFE has been created:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6346341 I ask that you please consider voting for it (getting an account is easy and so far hassle free :-) ). If you know of another java developer or user that would find it useful please forward the link. I started this discussion here: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=678853&tstart=0 In a nutshell, the RFE is asking that Sun add an option within the java control panel to pre-load the Java Virtual Machine at system startup and keep it around. Why? The cold start time of our applet has increased since moving to java 1.5 despite claims by Sun that this version has better load times. After testing, it has been determined that simply preloading the JVM cuts the load time dramatically. Dennis Klotz, Senior Software Engineer EMPIRIX | Communications Infrastructure Group |
