Your best bet (as explained in my book ;) is to keep your jars in WEB-INF/lib and classes in WEB-INF/classes, OR use Resin and specify alternative directories for those two locations (such as lib/runtime and build/java). The real gain is for you to use a Hotswap capable IDE, such as Eclipse, Codegen, or the beta versions of IDEA. Using Hotswap, you can deploy some changes of your classes dynamically.
As Hani suggested, in WW 1.4 there is also support for reloading action classes dynamically (this will come to 2.0 shortly as well). -Pat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anoop Ranganath Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] OT: what do I need to use to never have to restart the app server to test changes? > Yeah. It's not a big task, after all. (Maybe it is and I just don't > notice, since it's so trivial to do with ant.) The latter is the case. It is a very big task, and you could easily increase your development efficiency by 100% if you worked with an exploded ear rather than earing and deploying each time. Examine the exploded format on your hard drive, and set your IDE compiler to output into whatever folder the classes are going into. Then you just need to restart the server. If your server supports class reloading, you may not even have to do that unless you make major configuration changes. Anoop ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
