> I have a website that runs a Java app called Saxon to execute XSLs > on the server. Each time Saxon is called, it takes a good while for > the Java VM to start up. Does anyone know how to have Java VM run in > the background with Apache so every time a user causes Saxon to run it > can do so without a huge startup time? Java "running in the background" sounds like an Java servlet container such as Apache Tomcat. Apache passes Web requests on to the servlet container where an XSLT Java servlet acts on them. Saxon has a servlet implementation, http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/samples/servlet.html This involves several pieces and maybe some Java servlet programming :-( There's probably a way to use the Apache FastCGI interface to talk to a persistent external Java VM running Saxon but I don't know if it'll be any simpler. There are XSL processor modules for Apache like mod-xslt2 and AxKit, but I believe neither uses a Java-based XSLT engine. XSL transform is always going to be a heavyweight operation. You can investigate caching the results of the transform, precompiling the XSLs, etc. Perhaps that's why this simple problem seems to evolve into something more complex like AxKit|Cocoon|XSP|XTP etc. running on a full-blown app server. Cheers, -- =S Page --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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