We are using ClearCase too. 

1. Beanshell is as you say VERY flaky for accesss of code in ClearCase storage. I have 
managed at times to make it work for getting source code for classes under the cursor 
(C-cC-vC-y), but it takes time to get any response (emacs seems to hang in between). 
It can take between 5-10 retries before I get a reply from the Beanshell. I submitted 
a request to the list for help in managing to get some debugging trace information in 
the *bsh* buffer whenever I try to use the Beanshell functionality but received no 
answer yet :-(  Without that I cannot say for sure if it is a network access issue, a 
ClearCase issue or a Beanshell issue.

When editing code on local drives (not NFS and not on ClearCase) the response time of 
the Beanshell is as reported in the JDEE documentation.

2. I have not experienced any issues with compilation. It works ok for me.

3. Clearcase is notoriously slow sometimes. Run a CCase Analysis Doctor (I am talking 
about windows here, I am not sure what happens in Unix, tho Unix CCase should have 
something similar) to see if there are any reported conflicts.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molitor, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Things hang when using ClearCase
> 
> 
> Has anyone noticed any general flakiness when using JDE and Emacs with
> ClearCase?  We just switched to ClearCase, using dynamic 
> views, on Windows
> NT 4.0, with the ClearCase NFS client turned on.  Since then, 
> lots of flaky
> stuff has been happening.  Most of these things happen even 
> with local Java
> files not in ClearCase, but they seem to be related to the 
> NFS client, and
> process IO.  Specifically:
> 
> 1. Starting the bean shell hangs -- even after waiting 
> several minutes for
> it to start.
> 
> 2. Compilation doesn't finish - the 'finished' message is not 
> displayed.
> However, if I do CONTROL-ALT-DELETE to bring up the "Windows 
> NT Security"
> box (used to bring up the task manager, etc., and it hides the desktop
> temporarily) and then hit cancel, the 'finished' message 
> appears in the
> compilcation buffer.
> 
> 3. Things are slow in general, not just in Emacs.
> 
> I could submit a bug report, but I suspect that this isn't 
> really JDE's
> fault.  Just wondering anyone has seen these kind of problems with
> ClearCase, and has any workarounds.  Any Emacs settings 
> related to process
> IO and polling, timeouts, etc., that might help here?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Steve Molitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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