I was messing around with "Apply Code Changes" while running Netbeans in debug mode today, deploying our Java app to Payara running in Docker. It's quite fast! I recorded a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3aKOg96f0
I'm happy to hear what you think, if this approach is practical, etc. Thanks, Phil p.s. Here's the dev guide I mentioned: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/developers/dev-environment.html#quickstart