Official MAC Designer Beta experience

Hi there

My experience has been okay so far. A few remarks:

• I installed adoptopenjdk11 with home-brew, but it's not working for me, see error below.

When running it from a shell I get an error:

./Axon.ivy\ Designer Error: could not find libjava.dylib Failed to GetJREPath() Unable to create basic Accelerated OpenGL renderer. Core Image is now using the software OpenGL renderer. This will be slow.

I found this to be a bug:https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213362

• Max java heap size The vmargs settings placed in Axon Designer.ini are not evaluated. Please see below:

  % cat Eclipse/Axon.ivy\ Designer.ini -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -startup ../Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.500.v20190715-1310.jar --launcher.library ../Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.1100.v20190907-0426 -nl en -vmargs -Xms5g -Xmx5g -Dosgi.parentClassloader=ext -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=11 -da -Dsun.java.command=AxonIvyDesigner --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM --add-modules=javafx.base,javafx.controls,javafx.graphics,javafx.media,javafx.web --add-exports=javafx.web/com.sun.webkit.dom=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=javafx.web/com.sun.javafx.webkit=ALL-UNNAMED -XstartOnFirstThread -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts -Dosgi.instance.area.default=@% cat Eclipse/Axon.ivy\ Designer.ini -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -startup ../Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.500.v20190715-1310.jar --launcher.library ../Eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.1100.v20190907-0426 -nl en -vmargs -Xms5g -Xmx5g -Dosgi.parentClassloader=ext -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=11 -da -Dsun.java.command=AxonIvyDesigner --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM --add-modules=javafx.base,javafx.controls,javafx.graphics,javafx.media,javafx.web --add-exports=javafx.web/com.sun.webkit.dom=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=javafx.web/com.sun.javafx.webkit=ALL-UNNAMED -XstartOnFirstThread -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts -Dosgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/ivy-workspace --module-path=../Eclipse/plugins/lib.javafx.mac_11.0.2/lib/user.home/ivy-workspace --module-path=../Eclipse/plugins/lib.javafx.mac_11.0.2/lib/

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% ps axu | grep java
pwe               4748 130.0 14.4  6990408 1208912   ??  R    11:53PM   0:10.04 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java **-Xms1g -Xmx1g** -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=75 -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60 -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10 -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Xss1m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djna.nosys=true -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0 -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/folders/30/sk8tvhy52sx6ddnvnn8wwk0c0000gn/T/elasticsearch-15008019142061129486 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=data -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT -Dio.netty.allocator.type=unpooled -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=536870912 -Des.path.home=/Applications/Axon.ivy Designer.app/Contents/Eclipse/elasticsearch -Des.path.conf=/Applications/Axon.ivy Designer.app/Contents/Eclipse/elasticsearch/config -Des.distribution.flavor=default -Des.distribution.type=zip -Des.bundled_jdk=false -cp /Applications/Axon.ivy Designer.app/Contents/Eclipse/elasticsearch/lib/* org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch -Ehttp.port=19200 -Ecluster.name=ivy-elasticsearch-6767838646641248996 -Epath.data=/var/folders/30/sk8tvhy52sx6ddnvnn8wwk0c0000gn/T/elasticsearch-data-6427af79-5993-4ba5-94ec-3f4a1f61cb24
pwe               4765   0.0  0.0  4268276    664 s001  S+   11:53PM   0:00.00 grep java

it never uses more memory than shown above. Building the workspace is taking very long (5-10 minutes).

• Also can I run more than one instance of Designer?

On windows this can be done by renaming the .exe and .ini files. Designer 1 runs on 8081, Designer 2 on 8082... This would also be essential. I'd love to work with it, but it's too slow for now.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks advance and regards, Peter

Hello. I tested the memory issue and realized that you actually should increase -Xms argument value if you want to increase maximum amount of memory used. It also could be that the line where you put your argument isn't somehow working.

The "java" process shown with 1G is actually the process for elasticsearch so you shouldn't worry much about it. Here is some sample configuration that uses more memory.

You can also enable heap status like on the screenshot by going to preferences ->General and Show heap status

hi there, thanks for your reply. Yes, I found the heap status bar already, that's helpful. also thanks for eplaining the java process. I got it to use more memory, thanks. still it's painfully slow. what JDK are you using? oracle (open or commercial), adoptopenjdk, or perhaps any other?

I am using virtualisation (VMware Fusion), has anyone some recommendations for resources to allocate to VMware (and settings)?

are there any smart vmargs recommended? perhaps another garbage collector or server vm option?

any advice to speed things up little are very welcome.

hi there, thanks again for your reply. I understand your point, I am considering not using virtualisation. currently my vm has 1024mb graphic memory, allows 3d acceleration, uses openGL rendering rather then metal (since I read in VMware forums that those two don't go well together), 3 CPU cores and 10GB memory. I cleared out lots of unnecessary apps and services and tried to slim it down. also I have a rather new ssd (2018).

Thanks again very much for all your support and thoughts.

I have now installed everything on the host OS and I am excited, it's brilliant! really fast, memory settings are working as expected, more instances of Designer on problem at all. Thanks for your help and thoughts!!

having started to work with it now there are two details that I observed:

• shortcuts for opening resources and types

(on windows CTRL-SHIFT-T and CTRL-SHIFT-R) are not working when the focus is in a process map. the shortcut only works when the focus is in the process explorer (COMMAND instead of CTRL of course). also at times no shortcuts at all work (e.g. undo !, then all that works is selected from the menu, which is annoying)

• default for zoom

also the I didn't find a way to set a default for the zoom on a process map, which means I always have to zoom twice when opening any sort of process.

• code tab

sometimes the code tab (or output tab) is shown without text, see image below:

• logging

unfortunately I can't find the designer logs. I checked the log4j config file located in ../Contents/Eclipse/configuration/log4jconfig.xml

user.dir=/Applications/Axon.ivy Designer.app/Contents/MacOS

but there is no log. I double the write permissions on the directory, which should be okay. Also I tried to place a fixed path to the log directory. no luck. how is anyone else getting on with the logging? console (runtime) log is hence also not working.

hi there here are some more observations I made:

• Process Designer stays grey sometimes when opening a process or subprocess the windows just stays grey. see image below:

• can't inscribe to some process elements sometimes I just can't open the inscribe dialog window, only after restart of designer it works again.

• preferences window doesn't show all list elements, resizing the window helps.
• size of process elements in regards to the zoom and size of the process elements: I changed all font sizes to at least 13, but still the process elements are really small. this didn't seem to make any difference. it doesn't seem to be relative to the font size.

these are not so important issues, yet they can be annoying. perhaps at some point they could be addressed.

hi there

Thanks 8.0.5 is pretty stable and a huge improvement. There is one little thing I really miss a lot: when editing a data class, pressing tab would also go focus on the open select datatype dialog. Now it leaves the little C-Icon out. When I press tab takes the focus out of the line. It would be very very convenient if I could press tab to focus on the open dialog and then by pressing space the dialog opens. Then I would not need to use the pointer to open the dialog.