Java – hotswaping code to “mvndebug Tomcat: run”

Usually I use mvndebug Tomcat: run to start Tomcat

After the code changes, I need to use MVN Tomcat: redeploy

This is suboptimal because I often only change the content of the existing method body

Can I the method's body HotSwap to the runtime and hot redeploy it as a fallback?

Unfortunately, I found it like maven HotSwap plugin

faces-config. In XML

... <application>
  <view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
  <locale-config>
   <default-locale>de_DE</default-locale>
  </locale-config>
  <resource-bundle>
   <base-name>Message</base-name>
   <var>message</var>
  </resource-bundle>
  <el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
 </application>
</faces-config>

web. In XML:

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
    <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
    </listener-class>
</listener>

pom. In XML:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-envers</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.java.dev.ajax4jsf</groupId>
        <artifactId>ajax4jsf</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.6</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
        <version>3.6.6.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
        <version>2.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>myfaces-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.10</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>myfaces-impl</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.10</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.tomahawk</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomahawk12</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.9</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        <version>1.2</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.facelets</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsf-facelets</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.14</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0.GA</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.6</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <version>9.2-1004-jdbc41</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>servletapi</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
            <configuration>
                <contextReloadable>true</contextReloadable>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Solution

You can use jrebel – it works exactly as you expect You only need to specify the Java agent, which will reload all class and framework changes at run time It also applies to remote servers

To integrate it with the Maven project, you must add the jrebel Maven plugin, which will generate all the configuration (rebel. XML) files

Without jrebel, you can use the standard HotSwap mechanism, but it only allows you to reload the method body