Comments on: I'm Sick of Restarting My Server!

By: David Lee

David Lee — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:42:22 +0000

It's still early, but easygsp may be able to help. Groovy without Grails – php style development

By: David Lee

David Lee — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:42:22 +0000

It's still early, but easygsp may be able to help. Groovy without Grails – php style development

By: pramatr

pramatr — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:11:28 +0000

@Scot – As discussed “These frustrating server restarts have led many people, to rely on testing much more than ever before and to shift the focus away from debugging and logging”. I do heavily rely on testing but as I said that isn’t always enough. Depending on the project in question even with testing server restarts can be quite frequent. One example, a former work mate was working on doing some i18n work last week and because of the setup once he’d finished some translations he had to restart the server to see the results. I was using StrutsTestCase last week to test some of the new code I’d written but not everything could be verified before you press the big GO button.

By: scot

scot — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:05:23 +0000

if you wrote unit tests for your code the first place, and especially if you used test driven design, you wouldn’t be relying on it running in the server so much in the first place. also, you’d find your code was better designed.

By: pramatr

pramatr — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:13:21 +0000

@William you make some really good points. I’m not suggesting that the server restarts are an excuse to just start hacking but more that there is some development work that beomes very tedious when you have to keep restarting. Last week I was fixing up some Struts mapping issues which led to several server restarts and much frustration. Likewise I often spot little snips of code which might benefit from refactoring e.g. extract method. Do this and Eclipse is going to start complaining and so am I when my server takes over a minute to restart.