JDK-4813433 : JVm should have capabilities to share jars and class files on same machine
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: runtime
  • Affected Version: 1.4.1
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: solaris_8
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2003-02-05
  • Updated: 2004-02-02
  • Resolved: 2004-02-02
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4894899 - (cl) Need new ClassLoader.defineClass API to improve class loading speed.
Description
JVM should have capaibility to share the in-memory jar files among several other VMs on the same system. An ISV uses 33 JVMs and each JVM takes up large amopunt of memory because of loading jar files.
Comments
EVALUATION ###@###.### 2004-02-02 In recent SDK on Solaris/Linux, jar files in the boot classpath are already shared. In 1.5, application jar files are memory mapped as well, and ByteBuffer objects are passed to the VM.
11-06-2004