Eclipse - Why does Azure deployment take so long

Question

I'm trying to deploy my HelloWorld application in Windows Azure which was developed in Java using eclipse. The application working fine when I tested under tomcat and Azure sdk. I created hosted service in Window Azure Management Portal and deploy my application. It almost 3 hours and it still deploying.

I went to What Happens When You Deploy on Windows Azure? and checked but still unclear.Can anyone advice why it took so long to deploy and any suggestion how to make the deployment process more faster.

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Answer 1

I changed the startup.cmd, instead of copy my tomcat to azure i changed the startup.cmd to download the tomcat online. now its working fine.

Answer 2

Does you start-up script finish after tomcat start?

The instances will be marked as ready only after the start-up script finished, so if you start tomcat blocking the start-up script it won't reach this state unless tomcat crashes...

You should use "start" (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/start.mspx?mfr=true) command to start tomcat in a separated process allowing the start-up script to finish.

(In my memories the provided example in the eclipse plugin had the issue)