SilverStream delays

[Tom Eastmond]

I am testing SimpleXSLTServlet on a SilverStream 3.75 application server. The first time the servlet is run it takes nearly 18 minutes (not seconds). After the first run, execution times are less then half a second. I don’t see this delay running the same servlet in Tomcat 4.1. Below I’ve included the code I’m using – does anyone know why this could be taking so long?   TIA, Tom               long start = System.currentTimeMillis(); // The servlet returns HTML.             res.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");                // Output goes in the response stream.             PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();             try             {                                   TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();                         // Get the XML input document and the stylesheet.                         Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new URL("file", "", "..//Resources//StyleSheets//birds.xml").openStream());                         Source xslSource = new StreamSource(new URL("file", "", "..//Resources//StyleSheets//birds.xsl").openStream());                         // Generate the transformer.                         Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(xslSource);                         // Perform the transformation, sending the output to the response.                         transformer.transform(xmlSource, new StreamResult(out));                 }                 catch (Exception e)                 {                         out.write(e.getMessage());                         e.printStackTrace(out);                    }                 out.close();                 System.out.println("Time elapsed: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start));  //typical output on first run - 1118617                 return;                                                                                                     //afterwards - 400-500