Google App Engine application instance recycling and response times

Question

I posted this on GAE for Java group, but I hope to get some answers here quicker :)

I decided to do some long-run performance tests on my application. I created some

Answer 1

What would be good is if we could serialize the DispatcherServlet to the memcache, and then deserialize it from the memcache on a cold start if it is there. Then the instantiation of Spring would be really short.

DispatcherServlet is already marked as Serializable, we just need to find a way to serialize the WebApplicationContext object that the DispatcherServlet contains.