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> 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();
		}
 	}