“We ain’t a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.”
“Son, no one gives a shit about all the things your cell phone does. You didn’t invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that.”
– @ShitMyDadSays (book)
“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” – Mark Twain
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For anyone using Spring Framework with Tomcat 7, be sure to research the new annotation scanning (servlets-2.5) and web fragment (servlet-3.0) features of J2EE6. It’s enabled by default in Tomcat 7. The result when using Spring’s annotations, is that the entire classpath gets scanned twice. More information:
The J2EE scanning can be disabled by setting metadata-complete=”true” in web.xml. This simple change decreased my Tomcat 7 startup time on one medium size webapp by more than half. It’s likely even more significant on larger web apps, however, it did not seem to have as much affect on an older webapp I tested it with. I’m not exactly sure of the relevant combination of settings/libraries.
This setting is probably relevant to all servlet 2.5/3.0 compliant containers. i.e.
