Checking for JSP page modification

[Michael Rimov]

Hi All,   I wanted to drop this idea here to see what people thought of feasibility:   The situation:  (Especially true with last release of MyFaces)   Nearly every time I make a modification to a JSF page, it seems that I need to close and reopen my browser to flush the session because it won’t render the new page (for minor layout changes), or throw an exception about duplicate ids (for major changes).   It seems to me that if a JSF page checked (optionally, of course, this would be like ‘reloadable’ for a webapp) its modification date and found changes, that it would flush its own saved state and start afresh. (Logging what it did of course to help people figure out what might have happened).   For me this would dramatically increase development speed, which is starting to get bogged down with all the session restarts required.   Is this idea doable?  Does it open up too many cans of worms?   If its doable, I’ll file a Jira ticket, but I wanted to check here first.   Thanks!                                                                         -Mike