Hey Guys, For the last few weeks, I've been working on building Struts/Struts2 integration into JRebel, for a couple reasons: JRebel is a JVM agent that brings class reloading to the JVM platform, enabling web-application development without waiting for redeploys each time you change something. For frameworks that cache their runtime configuration like Struts/Struts2, simply reloading the classes doesn't do the whole trick, so I've also added explicit support to reload Struts action-mappings and framework constants without redeploying. In a study of 1100+ developers, we found that the redeploy process itself consumes between 3-7, full, 40 hour weeks per year, depending on the containers you're using, so I hope that support for Struts and Struts2 will help you to save some serious time.
I also made a screencast showing how Struts/Struts2 development would look with the JRebel Struts plugins enabled, and posted it in this official announcement: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/screencast-speedy-struts-1-and-struts2-with-jrebel/ If there's anything that I can do to improve our support of Struts & Struts2, let me know. You can reach me personally at s an...@zeroturnaround.com <san...@zeroturnaround.com> Sander Sõnajalg
