IBM RAD 7.5 … why does it take WebSphere so long to start / publish / republish / debug?

Question

I'm developing an EAR/WAR application with IBM RAD 7.5 and WebSphere 7.

When I run my app on WebSphere 7 within "eclispe", it take forever for WebSphere to start in "Run" mode (2 or 3 minutes). Much longer to start in "Debug" mode (5 to 10 minutes).

I have 'publish automatically' turned off, so I republish manually, and that too take a long long time.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there anyway to speed thing up?

Thanks, Rob

Answer 1

I wonder if you're hitting memory limits on your system and perhaps doing a lot of swapping. My WebSphere 6.1 under RAD 8 seems to start in an amount of time consistent with WebSphere by itself.

Answer 2

Try setting metadata-complete="true" in your web.xml I experienced significant improvements doing this.

Answer 3

I would suggest you check the Heap for the test environment.

Personally build automatically and auto-publish should be turned off, You run the publish as and when you need it.

This one is still a good reference http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/download/attachments/113606723/radtipsv754.pdf?version=1

Sometimes when it takes 5-10 to publish in debug mode, i either revert to export and install via the admin console or use wsadmin scripts to install the application.

Also turn on the heap config for RAD (one of the preference allows you to show this). You might be able to make some inferences if RAD is hitting into memory issues.

HTH

Manglu