On Wednesday, 06 March 2002, jian yang wrote: [snip] > One difference I know of is the version of j2sdk, the > one on RedHat6.1 is j2sdk-1.2.2...., the one on > windows machine is j2sdk-1.3..... > Could the j2sdk version difference cause the > application to run slower ? or any other ideas ? Yes. You could try the latest j2sdk-1.4.0 from Sun. It is reported to be much faster. -- "The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>