Servlet Load Times under WAS on an iSeries!

["Sal Stangarone Jr." <sals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have some simple servlets that I've deployed on our iSeries under both WAS
2.02 and 3.5.2 and in both instances the initial load times are unacceptable
(15 seconds or more).  Once loaded they perform well (under 2 seconds).  I
know I can have the Servlets loaded as part of the WAS startup but I don't
understand why these servlets take so long to load on our iSeries.  I've
deployed the same servlets to a standalone PC utilizing Tomcat as the server
and I see minimal (under 5 seconds) startup time needed there even though
its a small PII 233 PC.

I have tried optimizing my class file to opt 40 and while that has some
effect it's minimal.  Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this WAS or my
iSeries any ideas?

Feel free to contact me privately or publicly with any questions.

Servlet on my iSeries http://www.crazybikes.com/servlet/MRCSRVDEMO.I00220s

Servlet on my PC http://209.125.112.140/employees/servlet/MRCSRVDEMO.I00220s

I appreciate your help.

Sal Stangarone
630.916.0662