I just recently installed worklight in Eclipse in order to work on developing an iPad app, but I noticed it takes me significantly longer to build and deploy compared to the other developers. The others take rougly 5-7minutes each build while mine takes about 25-30 minutes. I am not sure what could be the reason and was hoping for some suggestions on what it may be?
I was told that in the build process worklight copies the contents of your projects to another directory on your machine, and I think the location of that directory might be the issue, but I am not sure how to check to see where this is happening.
Edit: To give more details as requested:
Both my machine and my coworkers machine are running Windows 7 Enterprise, with Intel dual core and 8G of RAM.
The workspace containing the project is located locally in the base of the C: drive but user profile files/folders such as My Documents are stored on a shared network drive. The project itself is 143mb.
To the best of my knowledge there are few factors that influence build time:
- Size of the Project (eg. 100MB)
- Number of Files in the Project (eg. 1200 files)
- Your environment got into a strange state.
- Some one reported performance issues with adding new Java code.
- Hardware
You can try:
- Lower the size of your project by removing unnecessary files, compressing images using lossy compression, etc.
- Concatenate resources like JS and CSS files.
Try to use resources hosted on other servers, at least for development, for example:
< script data-dojo-config="async: 1"
src="http//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.8.1/dojo/dojo.js">
< script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js">
Try creating a new Workspace and importing your project or removing (back up first!) the project's metadata directories and files (Workspace/WorklightServerHome, bin/). You may have a some success removing and re-creating the native environment folders. There's also a -clean flag you can pass to eclipse.
I was able to fix my own problem, worklight was using a .wlapp which was stored on my shared network drive. By changing the TEMP and TMP environment variables to a folder which is for sure local, such as C:\TEMP, worklight then accesses only local files great speeding up the build proccess.
