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Iterate your code more quickly
Reduce the VIVO build time
A full rebuild of VIVO may be necessary if you are changing the Java source code, or the contents of RDF files. However, if you are only making changes to the Freemarker templates, you can run the build script like this:
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ant deploy -Dskiptests=true |
By choosing ant deploy
instead of ant all
or ant clean deploy
, you are selecting an incremental build which will not re-compile all of the Java classes, or copy all of the unchanged files. By setting the option -skiptests=true
, you are choosing not to run the unit tests. This is reasonable because the unit tests to not apply to the Freemarker templates.
After making your changes to the templates, you should perform a full build with unit tests.
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ant all |
Don't restart VIVO until you need to
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