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BoboTheCodeMonkey
BoboTheCodeMonkey

Reputation: 1147

Reducing the restart time of IBM Websphere Application Server

A Java web application that I'm working on requires that I restart the server fairly often in order to see the effects of my code changes. I have a local version of WAS 6.0 on my machine that I use to run the app. The server takes about 5-10 minutes to restart. My machine is pretty decent with a dual core proc and 3 GBs of RAM, but the server still takes a fair amount of time.

I'm wondering if anyone has worked on reducing the startup time of a WAS server. I'm looking for tips, tricks, tweaks, or whatever.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1437

Answers (1)

Michael Sharek
Michael Sharek

Reputation: 5079

Is there any specific feature of WebSphere that your app is using or is it a pretty standard Java EE application?

I deploy my applications to WebSphere but do all my development using Tomcat. I can usually get it to restart in about 20 seconds or so. But my applications usually aren't using anything WebSphere specific (MQ, JNDI, security stuff, etc.) so not sure if this helps you.

Aside from Tomcat there are other lightweight Java EE servers you could try like Jetty or Geronimo.

Upvotes: 1

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