Hi , copying dev since this is relevant to all the idea users
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Rajith Vitharana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is a well known feature in Intellij idea. I thought of sharing this > because there may be people who doesn't know about this and waste so much > time shutting down and restarting servers instead of using this feature in > idea. > > In idea you can use hot deployment concept to reload the classess in a jvm > at runtime. for example, say you need to do a simple change to a class in a > jar file and test it. normally we will have to change the java class, build > the jar and put it inside lib folder or patch folder accordingly and > restart the server. > > But with intellij idea this is easier, what you have to do is start up the > server in debug mood and connect the intellij idea. then do the change you > need to do to the java class and compile that class using intellij idea. > that's it. intellij idea will reload the class in the jvm instance which it > is connected with the newly compiled class. note that this is not practical > with big changes to classess. such as changing a dependencies etc. > but this is very helpful when we need to do small changes and check for > errors. > > Thanks, > > -- > Rajith Vitharana > > Software Engineer, > WSO2 Inc. : wso2.com > Mobile : +94715883223 > Blog : http://lankavitharana.blogspot.com/ > -- Lakshman Udayakantha Software Engineer, WSO2 Mobile: *0711241005* *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
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