Code, deploy, test cycle

[bercy]

Hi,

I'm totally new to Alfresco. 

I've checked out Alfresco from SVN, created the projects in Eclipse, built them, and deployed them in a local Tomcat instance.

I'm on Windows 7.

The Alfresco web client works fine.

Now, I need to make some customizations.  It's not yet clear to me if those changes will be accomplished through config files, JSP modifications, or Java : like I said, I almost know nothing about Alfresco.

What I do know is that if I select the build task "incremental-webclient-tomcat" to build and deploy the client every time I make a few changes, the process takes more than 8 minutes.

How can I shorten this time ?  What's the best practice here ?

Thanks.

[mrogers]

It depends upon the type of changes you are doing.    Using Ant is slowest but sometimes I find the most reliable way of building.

The first thing to look at is whether your IDE will hot deploy the code.   So typically you will use Eclipse to run tomcat with alfresco.

[mrogers]

It depends upon the type of changes you are doing.    Using Ant is slowest but sometimes I find the most reliable way of building.

The first thing to look at is whether your IDE will hot deploy the code.   So typically you will use Eclipse to run tomcat with alfresco.