Robert,
I deal with Weblogic at work as well. If you are dealing with version 8.1 or greater, definitely look into their split-development structure. Essentially, your source code is staged in an exploded ear format. Weblogic will automatically compile JSP's for you (just like developing in tomcat) and the ANT tasks let you redeploy specific jars/classes without restarting or redeploying the entire app. We have seen a 30% jump in productivity using this feature. Good Luck! Regards, Joshua _____ From: Robert Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:29 AM To: AppFuse Subject: [appfuse-user] Off-topic - Tips to speed up Build-Test-Deploy cycle? Hi everyone, We running Appfuse w/Tapestry on WebLogic. Our Build-Test-Deploy cycle is KILLING us. The build isn't so bad, but the wldeploy ant task - the deploying of the war - takes ages, and once it's deployed, the first page view takes ages also. Maybe this is a stupid question and we're missing something totally obvious, but are there any tips to speeding up the deploy & first compile? We can't use Tomcat instead, so we are going to try WebLogic Express for development and see if it's faster. We can also speed things up if we only change DAO & Service by using unit testing only with no deploy, but right now it's mostly front-end Tapestry stuff we're doing.. so it requires an actual page view to text ajax, etc. Thanks!
