Very slow project "updating" - Is this unavoidable?

Question

Hello, we're migrating a fairly large application to BEA and having problems with long wait times when the project is rebuilt using Workshop.
The project uses servlets/xsl, entity beans and session beans and connects to around 100 database tables.
We're developing using Workshop and we have a distributed team with members in Seattle, New Jersey, Mexico and India. The database is Oracle and is located in New Jersey.
The problem is that for our team members in India, it is taking up to 8-10 minutes for the project to "update" after each rebuild. If we use a local database, this update time is eliminated. But due to security concerns, we cannot allow for each developer to have his/her own local database.
Does anyone have any ideas for how we might reduce this "updating" time? I believe what is happening is that after each project build, the entity beans are being re-initialized, and this takes a long time with a remote database.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Our last app server (which wasn't fully J2EE), allowed us to update a single entity bean, or a single servlet and we did not have to wait so long for the project to build/update. The app server we had been using is now over 5 years old, yet strangly it allowed for much faster iterative development that Workshop/BEA As far as I can tell, quick interative development just isn't possible with our particular project/environment.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Stephen,
Which Service pack are you on ? please upgrade to the latest service pack, which is SP6 for best performance.
You should look into setting up the iterative build in cases where you can do so.
Regarding the performance issues with teams in different regions. I'm unsure if there is much which can be done to increase responsiveness.
One thing you could try is to delete the temp files on the machine by running the following command
cd /d "%TMPDIR%"
for /D /R %%i in (wlw*) do rd /s /q "%%i"
for /D /R %%i in (jave*) do rd /s /q "%%i"
for /D /R %%i in (jws*) do rd /s /q "%%i"
for /D /R %%i in (xbean*.d) do rd /s /q "%%i"
How many projects do you have in your application and what type of projects are they ?
cheers
Raj