This is in the pipeline, but not there yet. Mostly I think the feature you are referring to is for communicating file changes *to* JBoss tools.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Rodney Russ <rruss@redhat.com> wrote:
Isn't there already a mechanism for recognizing changes for the integration with JBoss Tools?  Or is that just one way?

----- "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter@gmail.com>
> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev@lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:28:25 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [forge-dev] Food for thought: Seam Forge scaffolding is not 'continuous'
>
> This is possibly because if you don't "reload" the entity after making
> changes in an external editor, Forge doesn't know the file has
> changed, and rewrites the same contents... probably something to fix.
>
> That's my guess as to what they are referring to. Good point though.
>
> ~Lincoln
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Jason Porter <
> lightguard.jp@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>
> I'm a little confused by this thinking. Forge will work with whatever
> you have there. Generated or not. It isn't going to overwrite anything
> you put in there, maybe they were using an old version?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2011, at 22:50, Richard Kennard <
> richard@kennardconsulting.com > wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > There's a nice looking presentation up at...
> >
> >
> http://www.slideshare.net/jbaruch/pure-java-rad-and-scaffolding-tools-race
> >
> > ...that slightly 'dings' Seam Forge for not being 'continuous'
> (slide 43). I asked the authors what they meant by this. They said:
> >
> > "The reason we stated SeamForge scaffolding as one-time is not
> because of Metawidget, but because of the fact that generated code
> inside the entities is
> > not separated from user-created one. e.g. - I generated Person
> entity, then changed stuff and added some stuff to it, and SeamForge's
> entities editing
> > feature is not usable for me anymore (Metawidget's forms rendering
> will still work, of course). Just for the contrast, Spring Roo
> separated the
> > user-generated content from auto-generated content by using
> Inter-type declarations. I can edit my entities the way I like and Roo
> can mess with its ITDs
> > the way it likes"
> >
> > Just some food for thought?
> >
> > Richard.
> >
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