development performance

[bartr]

Hi all,

I'm trying to develop some stuff against the webapp, but am having a hard time because of the time it takes to run a single test on my machine (which is 1.3Ghz cpu with 2GB RAM): loading the whole Spring context (and instantiating all the Alfresco-beans) takes somewhere between 40 and 50 seconds every time.
Am I using an underpowered machine or should I alter some spring-configuration? (I tried whether default-lazy-init='true' on the beans-element would help, but apparently it doesn't).

I'm interested to learn what your machine-specs are and how long it takes to initialize the context.

Cheers,

Bart

[kevinr]

Yes this is a known issue. Unfortuntely you are starting the entire Alfresco server each time, loading all the third party JARs etc.etc. (there are a lot - we provide a lot of features and integrations!) There are plans to separate the server into a remotable unit. So for web-client development you will only need to restart the small web application rather than the server also. For now there is not a huge amount you can do to speed it up other than use a faster machine.

For reference, my 2.13Ghz Pentium M laptop takes about 16 seconds to start the server in runtime mode and about 25 seconds in JPDA debug mode.

Thanks,

Kevin

[rdanner]

Yes this is a known issue. Unfortuntely you are starting the entire Alfresco server each time, loading all the third party JARs etc.etc. (there are a lot - we provide a lot of features and integrations!) There are plans to separate the server into a remotable unit. So for web-client development you will only need to restart the small web application rather than the server also. For now there is not a huge amount you can do to speed it up other than use a faster machine.

For reference, my 2.13Ghz Pentium M laptop takes about 16 seconds to start the server in runtime mode and about 25 seconds in JPDA debug mode.

Thanks,

Kevin

I can hardly wait for remote a remoted webclient / repository / consumer apps.

Are there plans to support minimal configurations on the server / repository?  I suppose a lot of the features you are building in are leveraging the extension framework.