EditLive! 6.Performance
It’s been a while since I’ve written an article about EditLive! so I thought that I’d better put one out there about what the team has been working on recently and what we are currently working on.
Since the introduction of the major new functionality of the 6.0 release we’ve been working on performance. “Performance, but EditLive! is a Java applet!?” I hear you say. That’s right, we’ve been finding some great new ways to get Java to stand up and perform. And performing it is. I now routinely experience EditLive! load times of less than 3 seconds! That’s less than most JavaScript based editors out there (BTW that’s because of the number of HTTP requests they perform).
In the EditLive! 6.Performance releases (that’s 6.1, 6.2 and 6.Next) we’ve incorporated a whole range of caching routines that people can take advantage of, particularly with 6.1 and 6.2. In order to take advantage of these things you will have to make some code changes to your integrations, but they are minor and if you have any questions check out the information on LiveWorks! or get in touch with our ever-helpful support team.
As always, we’re running all these improvements on our internal systems as part of our commitment to continual testing. The performance improvements are outstanding, of course I’m somewhat biased as the EditLive! Product Manager, so please, check out the improvements for yourself.
We’ve also incorporated the new Inline Editing functionality of EditLive! with our EditLive! for ILWCM integration and we’re getting rave reviews from those who’ve rolled it out. In particular we’ve had a major client shift from using IBM’s JavaScript-based editor to EditLive! and they’ve cut their page load times from over 30 seconds to 3.
The engineering team has definitely pulled some rabbits out of their collective hats and they’re not done yet. EditLive! 6.Next will contain more improvements. At this stage I’m not going to spoil the surprise, but I think there will be many out there who appreciate it.
So check out the latest release of EditLive! and experience just how fast Java can be. Also stay tuned for what’s coming up in the next few months, there are some exciting improvements just around the corner.