[Live-demo] Re: Which version or Java to use on the OSGeo LiveDVD?

[Cameron Shorter]

On 06/06/10 12:05, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Mind, if you run all the java web apps in the same servlet container 
> they will also start all up at once by default. That will mean a
> very long startup time and a hefty amount of memory used to start
> all the apps up (in terms of the memory needed to host the bytecode
> of each application).

Andrea,
Good point. More important than disk space is RAM usage, and speed of 
starting up and running applications.

Does that mean we need to install a new servlet container for each 
application?
Or is it possible to configure tomcat so that it will only upload 
applications as we need them?

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