Behaviour of Zimlets with Zimbra 5.0

[gil.fernandes]

Hello,

I am trying to develop Zimlets using Zimbra 5.0 . I have noticed the following behaviour that makes for me the development quite difficult:

When you deploy a Zimlet via the administration console (usually on port 7071), everything goes fine. Ok, I notice I have some bug in my Zimlet, then I undeploy it via the console. Ok, this also goes fine. But yet, wait, when I start Firebug against the running Zimbra client, I see in script Zimlet-nodev_all.js.zgz still the code of the Javascript code of the undeployed Zimlet.

Is this behaviour normal? You undeploy a Zimlet and you still see have the "dead" code on the client? Is this a feature?

What is the best strategy to develop Zimlets under Zimbra 5.0 . Is there some configuration options I should turn on? Which is the strategy you can use to develop Zimlets in a confortable way under Zimbra 5.0? Any idea ...?

Kind regards,

Gil Fernandes

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,

First I would suggest using a test box where you can restart jetty.
You can append &dev=1 which forces the zimlet source files to load separately. But while this eliminates the modular loading, caching, and also the minimization, it does change the overall behavior.
I believe you can also increment the version in the xml file but I personally don't.
Note: There is a known issue with the _dev folder not working ZimletWritingTip - Zimbra :: Wiki
(Bug 19944 - Dev deployment of zimlets doesn't work is one of them)

[gil.fernandes]

Great !

When I try dev=1, then I see in Firebug each one of the scripts. This is a big help already.
Concerning restart of jetty, I already am running a test box on which I can restart it at any time. Yet I do not know how to restart it. I must confess I am a newbie to Jetty. How do you do it?

Thanks for the valuable suggestion, Mike,

Gil

[mmorse]

su zimbra
zmmailboxdctl restart

[jholder]

File a bug. &dev=1 isn't meant to be run all the time, and makes Zimbra much slower.

This is likely related to lazy loading.

[JoshuaPrismon]

Originally Posted by jholder

File a bug. &dev=1 isn't meant to be run all the time, and makes Zimbra much slower.

This is likely related to lazy loading.

I am going to try and duplicate this behavior.

[tdesorbaix]

Comment for Gil: I have this behavior too. When I undeploy a zimlet, the zimlet is not activated anymore but files are not removed. Is this normal?

PS : It is not only in 5.0, me I had it on 4.5