That is really excellent news! Thanks! Bruno
2009/8/27 Matthias Wessendorf <[email protected]>: > pretty cool! > > thanks! > Matthias > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Werner Punz<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, here is a small bomb I am dropping, some might have >> noticed already by the Jira entries. >> >> This minute I committed a first preliminary working version of the >> Java!!! reloading code. >> It still is rough and has limitations, but it works already for expanded >> webapps. >> >> Ok here is how it goes: I basically just dynamically recompile the >> objects on the fly and try to save attributes of the old instance >> in the new one. Since JSF has introspection left and right, this works >> out pretty well. >> >> If you check out the web.xml of the provided example you can find two >> config entries which you can use to point towards your real source >> paths, otherwise WEB-INF/groovy and WEB-INF/java is picked up as source >> path. >> >> You can run after adjusting your web.xml the example via >> mvn:jetty-run:exploded and you can edit the provided java classes >> of the example (TestBean under WEB-INF/java and its dependencies) >> on the fly and what the code being recompiled on the fly >> and new adjustments being applied without server restarts! >> >> Following limitations are present for now >> >> a) Statically compiled java code can only call the dynamic one either by >> using introspection or by using interfaces, otherwise you will >> get class cast exceptions even if the classname of the dynamic class >> does not change (the engine sees two classes both having the same name >> but are different) >> >> b) You can run currently only in webapp environments (EAR for now is not >> fully supported) and exploded, I will work out those limitations in the >> long run, but for now I am happy that it even works! >> >> >> Happy hacking >> >> Werner >> >> >> > > > > -- > Matthias Wessendorf > > blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf >
