Comments on: Another Jaxer 1.0 Release Candidate with new APIs http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:44:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Uri http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266389 Uri Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:39:25 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266389 Back to Jaxer... ;-) ...we are working on at least getting some simple benchmarks online ASAP. The JavaScript part of the benchmarks is already clear: it performs as fast as JavaScript in Firefox 3, which is pretty fast. But we also want to show the performance of DB and file access and of DOM processing, and wrap it up into real-world scenarios showing how fast pages and apps perform. Back to Jaxer… ;-)

…we are working on at least getting some simple benchmarks online ASAP. The JavaScript part of the benchmarks is already clear: it performs as fast as JavaScript in Firefox 3, which is pretty fast. But we also want to show the performance of DB and file access and of DOM processing, and wrap it up into real-world scenarios showing how fast pages and apps perform.

]]> By: Nosredna http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266362 Nosredna Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:09:10 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266362 Thanks Greg Thanks Greg

]]> By: GregHouston http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266357 GregHouston Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:19:53 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266357 @Nosredna: I imagine you may very well be having memory problems as well. Here are some suggestions: . Go to Window>Preferences>General and select "Show Heap Status". This will add a little progress bar at the bottom right of your UI so that you can troubleshoot memory issues. . Go to Help>Aptana Troubleshooting>View Aptana Studio Log File and see if you aren't getting either of the two following errors: . java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space . java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space . If so, go to C:\Program Files\Aptana\Aptana Studio or wherever you have installed it, and open AptanaStudio.ini. Replace everything with the following. Hopefully the blog doesn't mess this up: <code> -name Aptana Studio -vmargs -Xmx512M -Xms256M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.awt.headless=true </code> . I also turned off Folding and Validation for most of the individual editors in Window>Preferences>Aptana>Editors . It's also probably a good idea to check how much memory you have to spare in your OS's version of the Window's Task Manager. Aptana Studio uses 4 times as much memory as my last IDE. With 2GB of RAM on my computer, once I get all the applications open that I normally do while working there is very little available RAM left, a lot of which is due to the VMware XP install that I run solely for the purpose of viewing sites with IE6. In any case I ordered a couple more Gigs of RAM to give me some more breathing room. @Nosredna: I imagine you may very well be having memory problems as well. Here are some suggestions:
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Go to Window>Preferences>General and select “Show Heap Status”. This will add a little progress bar at the bottom right of your UI so that you can troubleshoot memory issues.
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Go to Help>Aptana Troubleshooting>View Aptana Studio Log File and see if you aren’t getting either of the two following errors:
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
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If so, go to C:\Program Files\Aptana\Aptana Studio or wherever you have installed it, and open AptanaStudio.ini. Replace everything with the following. Hopefully the blog doesn’t mess this up:

-name
Aptana
Studio
-vmargs
-Xmx512M
-Xms256M
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Djava.awt.headless=true

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I also turned off Folding and Validation for most of the individual editors in Window>Preferences>Aptana>Editors
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It’s also probably a good idea to check how much memory you have to spare in your OS’s version of the Window’s Task Manager. Aptana Studio uses 4 times as much memory as my last IDE. With 2GB of RAM on my computer, once I get all the applications open that I normally do while working there is very little available RAM left, a lot of which is due to the VMware XP install that I run solely for the purpose of viewing sites with IE6. In any case I ordered a couple more Gigs of RAM to give me some more breathing room.

]]> By: Nosredna http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266356 Nosredna Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:31:32 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266356 Interesting on the performance. On a fresh install, where I didn't install anything special (except for Adobe AIR support), I have periods of 30-45 seconds where the editor is frozen and the hard drive is being hit mercilessly. Seems like they should put some time into figuring this out, as I do not have the same problem with either Komodo or NetBeans. Interesting on the performance. On a fresh install, where I didn’t install anything special (except for Adobe AIR support), I have periods of 30-45 seconds where the editor is frozen and the hard drive is being hit mercilessly. Seems like they should put some time into figuring this out, as I do not have the same problem with either Komodo or NetBeans.

]]> By: GregHouston http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266351 GregHouston Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:16:11 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266351 On the last Jaxer post I commented on my initial impressions of Aptana Studio (which comes with a Jaxer interal server). Since then with help from Aptana I believe I have been able to resolve my performance issues related to crashing and sluggishness. . It required a fresh install, changing some memory settings in an ini file, turning off some features I don't use, and not installing a particular SVN plugin that I think may have been causing some of my PermGen issues, but now it seems to be purring along just fine. I used it for work all day today without any crashes or noticeable sluggishness. Hopefully I am just a random case that has this much trouble getting it running smoothly. . In any case, I have found the Aptana team to be rather responsive and friendly, and that impressed me enough to go ahead and purchase a Pro license. . Having had another 3 days to fiddle with it, I can say that for a new user you may need to have a bit of patience with it. Hopefully you don't have all the performance problems to work through that I did, but then there are a few things that don't seem immediately intuitive for a new user such as setting up FTP for a project, previewing a project, and finding and setting the preferences for particular things. Fortunately for the first two there are screencasts and plenty of documentation. . In my last IDE I didn't really have to change many preferences to get it where I liked. Aptana seems to be a lot more complicated, with a lot more features, and so getting it just right seems to be a lot more work. There are several times more preferences in Studio than my previous IDE and yet I'm still finding there aren't preferences for some of things I want to turn off or change the default behavior of. I'm just writing tickets for them as I go along. . And then as I partially mentioned in my last post there are features that seem strangely missing such as word wrap in the editors and consoles, and find and replace for entire folders where the results display the matched text in each document. The latter is rather handy so you don't have to open an entire tree of search results one file at a time to see if it is the right one. I should mention however that Aptana currently is working on the word wrap for the editors. I don't know about the consoles so I created a ticket for it. . Having said all that, things are looking a lot more promising than a few days ago. We'll see how it goes. Cheers. On the last Jaxer post I commented on my initial impressions of Aptana Studio (which comes with a Jaxer interal server). Since then with help from Aptana I believe I have been able to resolve my performance issues related to crashing and sluggishness.
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It required a fresh install, changing some memory settings in an ini file, turning off some features I don’t use, and not installing a particular SVN plugin that I think may have been causing some of my PermGen issues, but now it seems to be purring along just fine. I used it for work all day today without any crashes or noticeable sluggishness. Hopefully I am just a random case that has this much trouble getting it running smoothly.
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In any case, I have found the Aptana team to be rather responsive and friendly, and that impressed me enough to go ahead and purchase a Pro license.
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Having had another 3 days to fiddle with it, I can say that for a new user you may need to have a bit of patience with it. Hopefully you don’t have all the performance problems to work through that I did, but then there are a few things that don’t seem immediately intuitive for a new user such as setting up FTP for a project, previewing a project, and finding and setting the preferences for particular things. Fortunately for the first two there are screencasts and plenty of documentation.
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In my last IDE I didn’t really have to change many preferences to get it where I liked. Aptana seems to be a lot more complicated, with a lot more features, and so getting it just right seems to be a lot more work. There are several times more preferences in Studio than my previous IDE and yet I’m still finding there aren’t preferences for some of things I want to turn off or change the default behavior of. I’m just writing tickets for them as I go along.
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And then as I partially mentioned in my last post there are features that seem strangely missing such as word wrap in the editors and consoles, and find and replace for entire folders where the results display the matched text in each document. The latter is rather handy so you don’t have to open an entire tree of search results one file at a time to see if it is the right one. I should mention however that Aptana currently is working on the word wrap for the editors. I don’t know about the consoles so I created a ticket for it.
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Having said all that, things are looking a lot more promising than a few days ago. We’ll see how it goes. Cheers.

]]> By: eyelidlessness http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266350 eyelidlessness Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:09:35 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266350 I'm personally really excited about Jaxer, and am going to try my damnedest to get to use it for my next major app. I’m personally really excited about Jaxer, and am going to try my damnedest to get to use it for my next major app.

]]> By: thatvetguy http://ajaxian.com/archives/another-jaxer-10-release-candidate-with-new-apis/comment-page-1#comment-266348 thatvetguy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:07:04 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3998#comment-266348 I won't use until there are BENCHMARKS!! The possiblity to use it with nginx would be great too... I won’t use until there are BENCHMARKS!! The possiblity to use it with nginx would be great too…

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