note monsieur_champs Fellow Joost I'm actually using mod_perl, as Catalyst provides a content handler. The Java test was made with just 5 seconds of "ramp-up" time. Perl was running under the same conditions. Is that fair? My machine shares the Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.8 GHz and 512Mb Ram with Oracle (nicely tunned to use less memory as usual) with the Tomcat (only when running Java) or Apache/ModPerl (only when running Perl). I know this is not the best situation, but this is what I have. We're using the same machine to run tests, just shutdown the application (Java or Perl) that will not be tested and run tests against the other. I don't know a lot about the Java code. I guess its simmilar to the Perl code, but this is only a guess. I'll ask about this to the Java programmer tomorrow moring. I don't know about the templating system, also. Maybe just servlets, the java application was made on sunday, only for the benchmarks. My Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Flex is trully serializable (and just hold some integers, anyway). I choosen to use Apache::DBI to handle the database connections, and load it from my <code>httpd.conf</code> file. Guess Java is using just one or two database connections, while I'm forced (not sure about "forced") to use a connection per server process. You gave me nice tips on what to look for at the Java code so I can state if this is a fair benchmark. Thank you very much and may the [gods] [bless] you!  <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-260843"> -- [monsieur_champs] </div></div> 487618 487624