Woo-hoo, I found the culprit after you got me thinking about the classpath.
The slow web-app project's .classpath had:
That causes eclipse to do too much file-system thrashing during the build.
For some reason (translation: too embarrassing to describe), several months
ago I'd removed the a
How complicated are your pages? I've heard of these problems when
pages have deeply, deeply nested component structures (as in, loading
a page instantiates 15000 components).
The other thing that can slow things down is all the class path
searching involved in locating the page and component clas
When I make a trivial change to a Tapestry page in development and refresh
my browser to cause a hot reload, it's taking about 11 seconds which is
getting annoying. I don't know exactly when this started (months ago), but
in an older workspace the page-reload time is about 0.3 second. Both are
us
