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Builds in IBM Integration Designer

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In IBM® Integration Designer, workspace resources are stored in several types of authoring projects, such as modules, mediation modules, libraries, and component test projects. Depending on the number of authoring projects in the workspace and the specific build activities that occur during a build, it can take varying amounts of time for a build to complete. However, you can now choose the specific build activities that you want to occur during an automatic or manual build, which can help you significantly reduce build times.

In IBM Integration Designer, the following build activities can substantially increase the duration of a build:

Validation of large XML schemas or WSDL files in libraries.
Generation of deploy code for modules.
Publishing of deploy code to servers.

Fortunately, you can control all of these build activities.

For example, if you have a library that you don't expect to change and you want to exclude it from clean builds because it contains large XML schemas or WSDL files that take a long time to validate, you can accomplish this task in the Properties window for the library.

Similarly, if you do not want to have deploy code generated during a build or you do not want to have integration modules or component test projects updated on running servers when a build completes, you can specify this in the Build Activities view. You can also use the Build Activities view to invoke immediate manual builds that temporarily override your build activity selections. Depending on the current build state of your business integration projects, these manual builds will validate your projects and generate deploy code, as well as optionally update or replace your integration modules or component test projects on running servers when the manual build completes.