Yes tomcat 5.5.17 would speed things up since the Eclipse compiler is
used and is faster.
You should ALWAYS precompile your webapp when placing it into
production. It eliminates any compile penalties as well as validates
that everything DOES compile before your deploy.
Uploading anything to the work folder is a bad idea.
Using JSP tags would make page compiling faster but there is a tradeoff
in the easy of use of JSP tags vs .tag files.
Putting your .tag files into a jar will still occur a compile time penalty.
Using a template engine has its own tradeoffs. (Personally - I like
freemarker if you need to use a template engine)
Good luck
-Tim
John Cherouvim wrote:
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The second (big) problem, is when I try to deploy on the client's web
server (intel xeon with 4 cpus with tomcat 5.0.28). I deploy and
tomcat starts up in something like 9 seconds. Then I access the
application for the first time, using a browser, and it takes more
than an hour to build the
work\Catalina\localhost\MY-APPLICATION\org\apache\jsp folder. Looking
at the generated sources of those tag files it seems to me that its
taking so much because tomcat has to calculate all the dependencies
between tags. As soon as everything has compiled, the application runs
smothly as expected. There are 118 tag files, and the
work\Catalina\localhost\MY-APPLICATION\org\apache\jsp folder ends up
with 238 files (one for .java and one for .class) and takes up 2.7mb.
I don't know why such a fast machine needs so much time to generate
1.47mb of source code, and compile it.
This situation is really bad for me and I'd like to know what can I do
to improve the situation.
1. Would tomcat 5.5.17 improve anything on this issue?
2. Would precompiling the JSPs and tags improve anything?
3. Can I upload my work\Catalina\localhost\MY-APPLICATION folder to
the client's server and force that tomcat not to re-compile? I tried
it and it did start compiling the jsps/tags again.
4. Would changing some tags from tag files to proper Java
javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag classes improve anything?
5. If I package my tag files into a jar, would then tomcat had to do
the work thing?
6. Should I change to another templating engine, such as Velocity?
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