mvn verify - Copying webapp resources too slow

[Eric Nguyen personal]

Hi guys,

Is there any way we could speed up the rebuilding project process?

It usually takes 2-3 minutes between the following 2 steps alone, sometimes more:

Someone on StackOverflow mentioned the use of maven-war-plugin but I'm not sure how to configure it.

Do we really have to run `mvn verify` all the time? Can we use smaller tasks e.g. mvn tomcat:deploy? Would using system Tomcat be better compared to the one bundled in Hippo CMS archetype?

[Eric Nguyen personal]

Basically, anything that could speed up this rebuilding process would be great.

This is the result of the process:

[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.6:war (default-war) @ scc-essentials ---

 

[INFO] Packaging webapp

[INFO] Assembling webapp [scc-essentials] in [/Users/eric/projects/hippo/scc/essentials/target/essentials]

[INFO] Processing war project

[INFO] Copying webapp resources [/Users/eric/projects/hippo/scc/essentials/src/main/webapp]

[INFO] Processing overlay [ id org.onehippo.cms7.essentials:dashboard]

[INFO] Webapp assembled in [13560 msecs]

[INFO] Building war: /Users/eric/projects/hippo/scc/essentials/target/essentials.war

[INFO]  

[INFO] --- maven-source-plugin:2.2.1:jar-no-fork (attach-sources) @ scc-essentials ---

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Reactor Summary:

[INFO]  

[INFO] SCC ................................................ SUCCESS [ 12.769 s]

[INFO] SCC Bootstrap ...................................... SUCCESS [  0.040 s]

[INFO] SCC Bootstrap Configuration ........................ SUCCESS [  1.377 s]

[INFO] SCC Bootstrap Content .............................. SUCCESS [  0.158 s]

[INFO] SCC CMS ............................................ SUCCESS [ 43.423 s]

[INFO] SCC Site ........................................... SUCCESS [02:07 min]

[INFO] SCC Essentials ..................................... SUCCESS [ 26.242 s]

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] Total time: 03:32 min

[Mathijs den Burger]

Hi Eric,

An quick fix is to only rebuild the modules that contain changes. For
example, if you only make changes in the 'site' module while building
a Hippo website, only that module needs to be rebuild and the
bootstrap modules, cms module and essentials module can all be
skipped.

Only rebuilding specific modules can be done with Maven's 'pl'
parameter. For example, to only rebuild the site, execute:

mvn clean verify -pl site

That said, over 2 minutes of build time for your site alone is still
quite a lot. Where is all that time spend? Compiling Java sources?
Then a faster CPU will help. Copying files? Then an SSD will help.

best,
Mathijs

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[Eric Nguyen personal]

It was actually my mistake when I put Twitter Bootstrap (~120MB) inside the webapp folder.

I moved it out and now mvn verify only takes ~40 seconds

[Ard Schrijvers]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Mathijs den Burger
<m.den...@onehippo.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> An quick fix is to only rebuild the modules that contain changes. For
> example, if you only make changes in the 'site' module while building
> a Hippo website, only that module needs to be rebuild and the
> bootstrap modules, cms module and essentials module can all be
> skipped.
>
> Only rebuilding specific modules can be done with Maven's 'pl'
> parameter. For example, to only rebuild the site, execute:
>
> mvn clean verify -pl site
>
> That said, over 2 minutes of build time for your site alone is still
> quite a lot. Where is all that time spend? Compiling Java sources?
> Then a faster CPU will help. Copying files? Then an SSD will help.

And don't use Windows if you do...

Regards Ard

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