Re: [undertow-dev] Undertow development mode

From: "Max Andersen" <manderse(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Stuart Douglas" <sdouglas(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: undertow-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, "Pete Muir" <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Wednesday, 31 July, 2013 2:12:12 PM Subject: Re: Undertow development mode First off Stuart - can I give you a hug ? This is awesome! 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. >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: > >- Set JSP development mode Great - so this means Wildfly will recompile .jsp files when changed, correct ? Anything else ? >- Display stack traces in error pages. We do not do this by default for >security reasons. Cool. >- Disable caching so file changes are picked up straight away 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). >- 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. AWESOME x infinity! >I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for other features we could add to >make development easier? JSF/facelets have a development mode too if I recall? maybe that makes sense too ? /max