Re: reload on demand?

2007-02-27 Thread Kent Tong
Paul Singleton jbgb.com> writes: > Are you serious?! Our developers rely on Hot Code Replacement to > enable them to continue debugging after changes to program logic, > and only restart if they want/need to or if HCR fails (e.g. because > they added/altered a public member signature etc.). The

Re: reload on demand?

2007-02-26 Thread Kent Tong
Christopher Schultz christopherschultz.net> writes: > I'm suggesting that you only deploy when you need to (even just copying > files into your exploded WAR area). Are you updating your app many times > more often than you want to reload it? Why? Because the project output folder in Eclipse is s

Re: reload on demand?

2007-02-26 Thread Kent Tong
Christopher Schultz christopherschultz.net> writes: > Why not only copy your new WAR file (or classes, etc.) to the deployment > directory when you actually want the webapp to reload? Creating a WAR file and copying it takes quite a lot of time. So, the webapp is setup as an exploded directory.

Re: reload on demand?

2007-02-25 Thread Kent Tong
John McPeek bellsouth.net> writes: > If you use eclipse and WTP it does all that for you. Then you can spend > almost 0 time thinking about start/stop/reload stuff. Thanks for the reply. However, it will reload the webapp whenever a change is made, just like setting reloadable to true and wil

reload on demand?

2007-02-24 Thread Kent Tong
Hi, In a development environment it's desirable to reload a webapp if any of its class files has been changed. I know about the reloadable flag, but it will keep reloading the webapp whenever a change is made and slows down the computer. Instead, I'd like to reload it on demand, ie, when it is ac