Deployment of external WAR/EAR to AS Java 7.4 very slow

Hi Experts,

I am trying to deploy a UI5 application developed in Eclipse with the UI5 Tools plugin to an NW AS Java.

I am using Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 and the UI5 Tools plugin version 1.28.5 for my UI5 development. The AS Java I want to deploy it to is version 7.40.3301. I am trying to use NWDS with the version 7.3 EHP 1 SP 13 PAT0000 for the deployment.

My problem is that the deployment process takes very long, over an hour.

To do the deployment, I took the following steps:

• Export the UI5 application once as a WAR file, once wrapped in an EAR from Eclipse.
• Use  the Deployment view to import either the WAR file or the EAR file:
  
  
• Set up the deployment like this:
  • Update deployed archives with any version
  • Stop when the first error occurs
  • Bulk (stop all, start all in group)
• Start the deployment using the "Deploy" button next to "Import Java EE Archive" button in the toolbar.

No matter whether I use the WAR file or the EAR, the deployment will get stuck in the status "Life cycle strategy: bulk deploy strategy":

Edit: After waiting for over an hour, the deployment actually did finish successfully. Waiting that long for each deployment is not really a solution, however.

Deploying regular DCs that have been created in NWDS works fine, so I assume that the connection should not be the issue.

Any idea what might cause this issue or how to resolve it? Is there a way to speed up the process?