I am porting an application from Windows to Linux which makes heavy use of servlets. I have a fairly intensive background process (currently a windows service) that requires no user interaction. I plan to rewrite the code in Java and I am wondering if there is any notable performance difference between running the Java code under Tomcat as opposed to running the code directly as a daemon. Since the application requires Tomcat, I know I can code it up as a servlet and kick off the processing in the init() function and not worry about executing the code directly as a daemon. Since this is a performance sensitive process I want to make sure that I choose the optimal route.
Does anybody know how java code running as a servlet compares performance-wise to the same code running as a daemon? Is one way generally better than the other? Thanks, Nate Thatcher
