[undertow-dev] Undertow development mode

[Pete Muir]

Adding Burr.

One idea would be to alter the logging config to log DEBUG messages by default in this mode?

On 31 Jul 2013, at 13:12, Max Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:

> First off Stuart - can I give you a hug ? This is awesome!
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> How is this flag set ? it should be do able via a startup flag and not require to invoke some management operation after the startup to be really useful.
> i.e. --dev command line flag.
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>> In Wildfly upstream I am introducing a 'development mode' flag (it is actually in Alpha3 as well, but I am going to change how it is represented in the model).
>> Basically the idea with this is that when this flag is set the server behaves in a way that is much more developer friendly, but is not suitable for production use. So far the changes are:
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>> - Set JSP development mode
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> Great - so this means Wildfly will recompile .jsp files when changed, correct ? Anything else ?
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>> - Display stack traces in error pages. We do not do this by default for security reasons.
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> Cool.
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>> - Disable caching so file changes are picked up straight away
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> Okey - haven't really noticed caching happening in the past though (except when VFS was put in front of seam ear's in AS5 days).
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>> - Optionally persist session information across redeployments (still needs a little bit of work), which should prevent a developer from having to re-log in every time they redeploy.
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> AWESOME x infinity! 
>> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for other features we could add to make development easier?
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> JSF/facelets have a development mode too if I recall? maybe that makes sense too ?
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> /max
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