From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:25:55 PDT

Hi.

This is a characteristic of Java, not of GlassFish specifically.

Once a class is loaded into the Java virtual machine by a class loader that class loader does not read the on-disk file again. Java by itself does not support arbitrary reloading of classes into a running VM.

- Tim
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