I believe the biggest cause of the JVM start up times were initializing the static members of classes. Gilad Bracha wrote more here http://canoo.com/blog/2010/

I believe the biggest cause of the JVM start up times were initializing the static members of classes. Gilad Bracha wrote more here http://canoo.com/blog/2010/05/07/java-post-mortem-with-gilad-bracha/ http://canoo.com/blog/2010/05/07/java-post-mortem-with-gilad...