Do you already use the EagerSingleStagedReactorStrategy ? See
https://ops4j1.jira.com/wiki/display/paxexam/Reactor+Strategies
It does not help for the startup time but reduces the number of starts.

Christian
Am 14.06.2013 15:37 schrieb "Marcos Mendez" <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> Maven only checks the version in the build, as after the first build, that
> zip is already in my local .m2. The time I'm quoting is the actual
> container (start method) startup time (after creating the exam system and
> container). That's what I'm trying to minimize. I did plan to look at the
> repos that I'm using, to limit them to the local only - as I know what I
> will be installing. But was wondering if there's anything else I can do.
>
> Regards,
> Marcos
>
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 12:44 AM, Andreas Pieber wrote:
>
> Do you reference the apache karaf artifact in your pom files? This is the
> only problem I can imagine making plain karaf tests sooooo slow for you. If
> you dont enter the karaf distribution in your pom file as a dependency the
> test framework doesnt copy it into your .m2 directory and therefore freshly
> download it for each test.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Marcos Mendez <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to improve the startup time for our integration tests. I'm
>> using the vanilla maven distribution zip, the exam tooling, and cut down
>> the featuresBoot to config. Is there anything else I can do to cut down the
>> startup time? It's taking around 20-30s to start with no additional
>> configuration. Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marcos
>
>
>
>

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