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Re: Time lost int the deploy and restart JEE Applications

From: Hong Zhang <Hong.Zhang_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:37:56 -0400

>On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Ronaldo Rigoni ...<rrigoni_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>How much time you lost in the deploy and restart your application
>>server in development environment?
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>Uh, none?
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>>What's your application server and IDE? Report your experience.
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>I'm only using the glassfish gem for JRoR projects at the moment,
>but with my old Java apps on Tomcat I just pointed the server at my
>dev build directory, and that's it. A couple of seconds for the context
>to reload when a file changed, no big deal.
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>I would think GF would be the same. Are you really totally restarting
>for every trivial change? That /would/ be painful. :-)
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No, no need to restart server for changes in application. Normally you
would need to redeploy application for any changes in the application to
take effect, but for changes in JSP files, you don't even need to
redeploy the application and changes will take effect at runtime..