We deploy and debug a Jboss Seam 2.0 EAR app from within eclipse, booting it on Jboss AS 4.2.2. Right now we need to reboot it every time we change the message bundle, pages.xml, components.xml, or the model, which takes up to 45 seconds.
Is it possible to include aforementioned files in hot deployment, and what are the options for boosting boot speeds?
For a frame of reference, we work on Intel quad core 6600’s or better, with at least 4GB of ram.
Edit: I’m looking for ways to improve both boot speed (thats the 45 seconds) besides hot deploying message bundle, pages.xml, components.xml etc.
This has been an outstanding issue for Seam for ages now : https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1096
It’s not a trick – more a method of working – but I have all of my UI code (page handlers etc) as POJOs so that they can be easily hot-deployed. Any more serious business logic I put in SLSB/SFSB and unit test them thoroughly so hopefully I have fewer deploys when testing the application via the UI.
Currently pages.xml can be hot deployed. I’ve read some solutions for reloading the message bundle but it’s never bothered me enough to warrant further investigation.