Why not start up one copy of the JVM and share it among many Java programs?
If the JVM takes about 15MB (say) in overhead, and a program takes 3MB, then starting up a fresh JVM for each program is slow and wasteful. If a single copy of the JVM and libraries could instead be shared among multiple Java applications there would be less overhead and everything would run faster. That observation was the guiding force behind the echidna project to support a JVM that could run multiple applications. See the site http://www.javagroup.org/echidna/ for more details. • (Sect. 20) How can I edit sound files? The JaWavedit java code lets you edit .wav and .au files. It can be found at http://www.bome.com/JaWavedit/. It’s free to use. If you are inspired to write freeware like this yourself, many file formats are explained and described at http://www.wotsit.org • (Sect. 20) Are there any Java tools for improving source reading? Java programmer Jason Shattu has released Java2HTML Tool which is a simple-to-use tool which converts Java Source Code into colorized and browsable
