Hi,
Following is the reply from GlassFish Admin GUI testing. What GlassFish version are you using ? There was one bug filed in GlassFish v3, 6644(
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6644), but for GlassFish v2 we could not recreate your scenarios. When you had a change triggers the message show up in any case, you should restart domain, otherwise, this message will always show on the screen. Would you please try this and if you still see this issue, please help us log a bug. Thanks, Judy
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User mentioned couple scenarios:
1. enable log monitoring
for v2.1 9.1.1, the change doesn't require server restart, just tested
2. change password
no require restart show for both v2.1 and v3
3. enabling precompile
does it mean to enable jsp precompile during deployment, I tried on v2.1, and it doesn't trigger restart message
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