"Waiting for background work to complete" when Roo Shell open in STS

[mcsenter]

I cannot seem to get a handle on using Roo effectively in STS. I like Roo. I want it to work, but the tooling is just not letting me use it. The Roo Shell seems to cause STS to hang for long periods of time, even when there are very few items for it to manage. I've made a couple of Roo-based projects in the past and just muscled through these types of delays, but I was hoping upon installing STS 2.6.1 with Roo 1.1.3, the problems would be resolved. I've created a new project. I have 4 entities. That's all Roo has to manage right now. After adding a custom finder to one of the entities, STS + Roo Shell has become unusable. That's all it took. Now every save causes a "waiting for background work to complete" message. Every Project->Clean is stalled indefinitely. The only escape is to Force Quit STS (because it will not shut down until the background work finishes, which never happens) and start anew without opening the Roo Shell. I then have to use Roo externally to STS and constantly refresh my project to pick up the changes. My machine is a MacBook Pro with a solid-state hard drive and 8GB of ram, so I know its not my machine's lack of "umph" that's slowing me down. Has anyone else had this problem? It has always existed for me with every version of STS + Roo Shell so far. It's like the project becomes "tainted," and there is no recovery. Once upon a time, clearing the sts-cache under the Roo directory might help temporarily, but ultimately, I always run into this time and time again. The proposed increased productivity that's supposed to come with using Roo is completely reversed by the required tools. Any ideas?

[markus.strenn]

we're facing the same problem here, using following versions:
STS Version: 2.6.1.RELEASE Build Id: 201105041000
ROO 1.1.3.RELEASE [rev 4404ffb]

We have a project with 15 entities, using GWT.

When starting the Roo-shell in STS it needs more then 10 minutes (consuming 100% CPU) until it executes a command (e.g. "hint");
When starting the Roo-shell from command line (Win-XP), it's just a matter of < 30 seconds...

[markus.strenn]

with the metadata status command I see no big difference between external roo shell and sts-embedded one. maybe it's an STS/eclipse issue?

here are the results of metadata status:

sts:

roo> metadata status
000003 ms; 003429 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.AutomaticProjectUpgradeService
000004 ms; 003429 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.TypeLocationServiceImpl
000132 ms; 002003 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.configurable.ConfigurableMetadataProviderImpl
000142 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrMetadataProvider
000148 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrWebSearchMetadataProvider
000153 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.IdentifierMetadataProviderImpl
000153 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrMetadata
000155 ms; 002672 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.serializable.SerializableMetadataProviderImpl
000158 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.json.WebJsonMetadataProviderImpl
000160 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.IdentifierMetadata
000161 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrWebSearchMetadata
000166 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.serializable.SerializableMetadata
000166 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.converter.ConversionServiceMetadataProvider
000171 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.property.editor.EditorMetadataProvider
000177 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.configurable.ConfigurableMetadata
000184 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.converter.ConversionServiceMetadata
000188 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dod.DataOnDemandMetadata
000198 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.mvc.WebScaffoldMetadata
000203 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.finder.WebFinderMetadata
000210 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.property.editor.EditorMetadata
000239 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.json.JsonMetadataProvider
000244 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.json.JsonMetadata
000257 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.json.WebJsonMetadata
000261 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.finder.WebFinderMetadataProviderImpl
000329 ms; 006197 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dod.DataOnDemandMetadataProvider
000376 ms; 002770 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.test.IntegrationTestMetadataProvider
000454 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.test.IntegrationTestMetadata
001194 ms; 001727 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.tostring.ToStringMetadata
001427 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.EntityMetadata
002061 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.finder.FinderMetadata
002463 ms; 001879 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.javabean.JavaBeanMetadataProvider
002888 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.plural.PluralMetadata
003073 ms; 001793 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.plural.PluralMetadataProviderImpl
003139 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.javabean.JavaBeanMetadata
003519 ms; 002772 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dbre.DbreMetadataProviderImpl
003527 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dbre.DbreMetadata
003651 ms; 002252 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.EntityMetadataProviderImpl
003765 ms; 005616 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.finder.FinderMetadataProviderImpl
005490 ms; 005423 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.tostring.ToStringMetadataProvider
006709 ms; 003955 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.javaparser.JavaParserMetadataProvider
008294 ms; 000372 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.PhysicalTypeIdentifier
010427 ms; 000002 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.MavenProjectMetadataProvider
013656 ms; 000041 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.gwt.GwtMetadataProviderImpl
013855 ms; 006201 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.mvc.WebScaffoldMetadataProviderImpl
027308 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.gwt.GwtMetadata
046831 ms; 003429 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.ProjectPathMonitoringInitializer
[DefaultMetadataService@19fa325 validGets = 163958, recursiveGets = 276, cachePuts = 6909, cacheHits = 111646, cacheMisses = 52312, cacheEvictions = 49365, cacheCurrentSize = 2308, cacheMaximumSize = 100000]

command-line:

roo> metadata status
000003 ms; 003458 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.AutomaticProjectUpgradeService
000004 ms; 003458 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.TypeLocationServiceImpl
000105 ms; 002009 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.configurable.ConfigurableMetadataProviderImpl
000131 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrMetadataProvider
000132 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrWebSearchMetadataProvider
000133 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.IdentifierMetadataProviderImpl
000138 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.json.JsonMetadataProvider
000141 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.property.editor.EditorMetadataProvider
000141 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.configurable.ConfigurableMetadata
000144 ms; 002702 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.serializable.SerializableMetadataProviderImpl
000144 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrMetadata
000145 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.json.WebJsonMetadata
000146 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.json.WebJsonMetadataProviderImpl
000147 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.solr.SolrWebSearchMetadata
000147 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.serializable.SerializableMetadata
000147 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.finder.WebFinderMetadataProviderImpl
000149 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.IdentifierMetadata
000149 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.property.editor.EditorMetadata
000151 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.converter.ConversionServiceMetadataProvider
000164 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.mvc.WebScaffoldMetadata
000168 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.finder.WebFinderMetadata
000168 ms; 006263 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.scaffold.mvc.WebScaffoldMetadataProviderImpl
000173 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.web.mvc.controller.converter.ConversionServiceMetadata
000179 ms; 002803 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.test.IntegrationTestMetadataProvider
000183 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dod.DataOnDemandMetadata
000186 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.test.IntegrationTestMetadata
000295 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.json.JsonMetadata
000827 ms; 001727 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.tostring.ToStringMetadata
001131 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.EntityMetadata
001329 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.finder.FinderMetadata
002165 ms; 001885 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.javabean.JavaBeanMetadataProvider
002707 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.plural.PluralMetadata
002730 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.javabean.JavaBeanMetadata
002733 ms; 001793 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.plural.PluralMetadataProviderImpl
002779 ms; 002258 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.entity.EntityMetadataProviderImpl
002919 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dbre.DbreMetadata
002927 ms; 002805 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dbre.DbreMetadataProviderImpl
003126 ms; 005480 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.tostring.ToStringMetadataProvider
004131 ms; 005617 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.finder.FinderMetadataProviderImpl
005506 ms; 003955 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.javaparser.JavaParserMetadataProvider
006417 ms; 000372 call(s): org.springframework.roo.classpath.PhysicalTypeIdentifier
007402 ms; 000002 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.MavenProjectMetadataProvider
010047 ms; 000041 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.gwt.GwtMetadataProviderImpl
010256 ms; 006259 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.dod.DataOnDemandMetadataProvider
020806 ms; 001720 call(s): org.springframework.roo.addon.gwt.GwtMetadata
036501 ms; 003458 call(s): org.springframework.roo.project.ProjectPathMonitoringInitializer
[DefaultMetadataService@8d7ba4 validGets = 165153, recursiveGets = 304, cachePuts = 6965, cacheHits = 112369, cacheMisses = 52784, cacheEvictions = 49782, cacheCurrentSize = 2308, cacheMaximumSize = 1
00000]

[cheng]

It happens to me all the time it seems, which is very anonnying as i have to restart sts every time.

My environment is:
springsource-tool-suite-2.6.1.SR1-e3.6.2-win32
spring-roo-1.1.4.RELEASE

[Andrew Swan]

Please log a JIRA ticket to ensure this gets the attention it deserves.

[markus.strenn]

logged a JIRA ticket: ROO-2492

[cheng]

No progress on this issue? we waiting for a fix to this, otherwise this is really annoying. Have to restart my sts every time.

[Andrew Swan]

Does it still happen if you use Roo 1.1.4 with STS 2.6.1?

[cheng]

I have to use Roo 1.1.0 for some reason. Mine is a maven project(base on maven 2.2.1).

[Andrew Swan]

I have to use Roo 1.1.0 for some reason.

Even if 1.1.4 fixes your problem?