"""Because of the startup time of the virtual machine?""" Fact is, we have hundreds of JVMs running that have uptimes of months. So really, we don't care about

"""Because of the startup time of the virtual machine?""" Fact is, we have hundreds of JVMs running that have uptimes of months. So really, we don't care about a JVM and app server starting up in 15 seconds. That is short term thinking. I'm rather fond of the long term stability though :)