How do people do "in-place" web development with Maven? I have been
developing web apps "in-place" now for quite some time (pre-maven). By
in-place, I mean the following:

- My development servlet container (Resin) runs an un-jared web app
- My development webapp and the executable webapp are one in the same
- Jikes/IntelliJ places class files directly in WEB-INF/classes
- My servlet container is setup so that it doesn't cache pages or class
files
  so i never have to restart anything or reload the web app

This is super convenient and fast. I can make changes to jsp pages and .java
files, press ctrl-F9 in IntelliJ, Alt-Tab to the browser and F5 to see my
changed web app. The time between making a change and viewing the change is
1/4 second. I'm used to this.

So now, I've set up my web app to work with Maven's war plugin and I have
lost the in-place development luxury because I have to run the war:webapp
goal every time I want to run my JSP. So, I'm considering ditching what
appears to be the standard way of doing webapps with Maven.

Q1: Do people actually work this way? That is, copy the entire webapp folder
every time they want to test out a small change in a jsp or class?

Q2: If not, how do they organize the webapp to do in-place web development
but also.

Thanks
Dave Ford
Smart Soft - The Developer Training Company
http://www.smart-soft.com



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