Suggestion from mailing list> 2. I'm going to be running GATE/ANNIE in Tomcat and feeding strings > via POST/GET. What is the most memory/speed efficient way to load it > once and run it 100,000 times? Perhaps just create a servlet that > loads itself 'on start' in Tomcat, runs Gate.init once, and waits for a request?Something like this - in init() you call Gate.init() and create your application Controller. In doGet/doPost you read the text from the request, create a GATE Document, pass it to the controller, do something with the results and release the document (with Factory.deleteResource).You just have to watch out for multi-threading issues - you can't use the same Controller or PRs in different threads at the same time, so if you have a single application you will only be able to serve one request at a time. When I do this kind of thing I create a number of identical copies of the controller in my init() and put them into a pool, so each request gets one copy of the application from the pool and returns it when the request is finished. @@You need one copy of the application for every request you want to process concurrently, i.e. with a pool of 3 apps you can serve three clients at once.public class RunAnnie extends HttpServlet { /** The Corpus Pipeline application to contain ANNIE */ private SerialAnalyserController annieController; public void init() throws ServletException { try { Gate.init(); } catch (GateException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } try {@@ // This needs to be initialized once per thread/copy for the thread pool this.initAnnie(); } catch (GateException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } }