Aug 26 2008
Shorter turnaround with JavaRebel
All of us have felt the pain waiting for the web-container to reload after just a minor change to the code. Well, recently i came across JavaRebel from ZeroTurnaround and they seem have solved our problem! And if you, as most of us, enjoy Spring you’ll also enjoy their Spring plug-in to monitor your context-files.
As they put it:
JavaRebel is a developer tool that will reload changes to compiled Java classes on-the-fly saving the time that it takes to redeploy an application or perform a container restart. It is a generic solution that works for Java EE and Java standalone applications.!
Promise me to have a look at their screancasts (found on the right hand side of the page). They also have a nice list of features and supported JVM’s and web-containers.
They also have a Google group that answers questions you may have.
I haven’t tried it yet but am truely looking forward to it:-)
And if you do, please post a comment and let me know how it went.
One response so far
Interesting technology. My first move would probably to go lightweight with something like Jetty if possible. If that’s not feasible and your’e stuck in big-slow-vendor-land it’s a good escape.