EDIT

does this also include marker and extensions? We will have extensions for sequences in the next Alga Terra Version.

the DescriptionPortalListController always returns the annotations for the requests to @ portal/descriptionElement/byTaxon@ but the portal/description/distributionInfoFor/ still needs to be adapted that way

performance test with and without initialization of annotations:

1. no annotations, Time per request: 837.971 ms|1. with annotations, Time per request: 1044.011 [ms]

this is a difference of 206,039 ms for 27 elements so 7,63 ms per annotation

total performance improvement for the page loading of http://localhost/d7/euromed/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a8ceb077-cfad-4619-9c47-e8770df41bd7

total page web service fetch time as reported by the debug block for first request after restarting:

1. annotations loaded with description elements: 9.285s

2. annotations loaded separately: 13.747s

time to load the html page

1. annotations loaded with description elements: Time per request (n=10) : 6109.158 ms|1. annotations loaded separately: Time per request (n=10) : 2851.489 [ms]

Did you load the full Annotation or only relevant attributes?

loading annotations with distributions committed as r20576

Replying to a.mueller:

Did you load the full Annotation or only relevant attributes?

as the annotations are loaded with the description elements they are loaded as full objects, e.g.

annotations": [

    {
        "annotatedObj": null,
        "annotationType": {
            "class": "AnnotationType",
            "titleCache": "technical",
            "updated": "2013-10-15T00:11:32.000+02:00",
            "uuid": "6a5f9ea4-1bdd-4906-89ad-6e669f982d69",
            "created": "2013-10-15T00:11:32.000+02:00",
            "termType": "AnnotationType",
            "uri": "",
            "protectedTitleCache": false,
            "representation_L10n": "technical"
        },
        "class": "Annotation",
        "commentator": null,
        "created": "2013-10-23T10:34:30.000+02:00",
        "language": {
            "class": "Language",
            "titleCache": "English",
            "updated": "2013-10-15T00:11:26.000+02:00",
            "uuid": "e9f8cdb7-6819-44e8-95d3-e2d0690c3523",
            "created": "2013-10-15T00:11:26.000+02:00",
            "iso639_1": "en",
            "termType": "Language",
            "idInVocabulary": "eng",
            "uri": "",
            "protectedTitleCache": false,
            "representation_L10n": "English",
            "representation_L10n_abbreviatedLabel": "eng"
        },
        "linkbackUri": "",
        "text": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><mapService xmlns=\"http://www.etaxonomy.eu/cdm\" type=\"editMapService\"><area><layer>em_tiny_jan2003</layer><field>EMAREA</field><value>Al</value></area></mapService>",
        "updated": "2013-10-23T10:34:31.000+02:00",
        "uuid": "7e6783a5-8cdc-4937-afb0-b90bfefe4acf"
    }

],

we should of course consider loading the annotations separately for all description elements as DTOs, so that only the relevant data is loaded and also to avoid creating the cdm entities in hibernate. This is ticket is still under discussion and my commit is only a first improvement which could be implemented quickly.