PM64773: Opening Facelets in a JSF 2 project takes a long time

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 8.5.1
Rational Application Developer Standard Edition, Version 8.0.4.2

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Abstract:
  
  Attempts to open Facelets in Page Designer in a Java Server
  Faces 2 project take a long time.
  
  Problem:
  
  In a Java Server Faces 2 project that contains many JAR files in
  WEB-INF\lib, perform these steps:
  
  1. Soon after the product started, right click on a Facelet
  (.xhtml) file
  2. Open the file with the default editor (Page Designer)
  
  Results:  In some cases it takes more than 30 seconds before the
  file is opened.
  
  Local fix:
  
  There is no known workaround at this time.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  JSF pages that use many component libraries can take an
  unusual and excessive amount of time to open in editors.
  This can also happen to JSF projects that contain many jar
  files in the class-path. A method in charge of looking for
  faces-config.xml files inside jar libraries of the project's
  class-path and then parsing them was being called an unusual
  and unnecessary amount of times for each page opened.
  

Problem conclusion

• Measures have been taken to re-parse the faces-config.xml
  files only in those situations where it is needed again,
  taking full advantage of the internal cache and improving
  dramatically the performance when opening pages.
  
  The fix for this APAR is included in Rational Application
  Developer v8.0.4.2.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL APP DEV WI

• Fixed component ID

  5724J1901

Applicable component levels

• R804 PSN

     UP