[Building Sakai] Updating component jars during development

[Matthew Jones]

Right, the components directory is a Sakai creation outside of Sakai and
there was never anything added for reloading of components (like how tomcat
can reload context and webapps). The easiest solution today is a hardware
solution, just use a fast SSD to run Sakai off of. What took over 2 minutes
on a magnetic drive takes under 30 seconds off of one of those.

If you do what Adrian suggests and remove stuff you can get it easily
restarted in under 10 seconds.

Though since I don't have a SSD in my local notebook (but have 8GB of RAM),
I'll often setup 1GB ramdisk as /tmp and run deploys on that. That's super
easy. (rsync if you care about the data or just a property for
${sakai.home})

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's a fair question, not daft at all, but I'm afraid the restarting
> tomcat bit has to happen as that's when the components get loaded.
>
> A good approach is just to strip stuff out of your Sakai that you're not
> working on (the reasoning behind the cafe build) so it starts up quicker.
> It's also a good idea to do most of your prototype development in a webapp
> and refactor into services later, if at all. There's lots of stuff in
> components that probably shouldn't actually be there as nothing except the
> related tool ever calls it.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
>
> On 25 June 2012 14:31, Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello All
>>
>> This may be (and probably is) a daft question, but here goes...
>>
>> If you change code which compiles to a component jar (like impl stuff),
>> is there a better (quicker/easier) way of deploying it to your dev.
>> instance than compiling it, stopping tomcat, copying the jar over, and
>> restarting tomcat?
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> R
>> ~~
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