When starting cruise from behind a corporate firewall, the startup is extremely slow. There are several timeouts in the logs. It looks like the cruise server tries to validate some xml schemas during startup. It is not able to complete this validation from behind our firewall and the server waits for the connections to timeout before proceeding with startup. After setting the proxy settings for the JVM the problem goes away. However, with the proxy set for the jvm we cannot access our subversion repository.

Suggestion: Include the xml schemas in the distribution, so that validation does not require access to the internet. Or, skip the xml validation during startup.

-Rob Anderson

Hey Rob

You are right—unfortunately the problem is deep within Jetty. We are working on a fix and hope to get it in for 1.1. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.