[jboss-as7-dev] Changes to .jsp in an exploded deployment no longer picked up?

[Remy Maucherat]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 17:16 +0530, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> One of the very useful features in previous JBoss AS versions was the
> ability of the server to identify and pick up changes to a .jsp page
> in an exploded deployment and serve the updated content on next
> request. Trying this out in JBoss AS 7.0.0.Beta3, I see that this no
> longer works:
> 
> 1) Create and deploy a test.war (along with a test.war.dodeploy) in
> the standalone/deployments. 
> 2) test.war contains a test.jsp with an intentional syntax error in it
> 3) Access the jsp via browser and see the (expected) compilation
> error. Now open the test.jsp file in a text editor, from the exploded
> test.war deployment, and edit it to fix the error
> 4) Access the jsp via browser again. Tried it more than once. I still
> see the compilation failure i.e. the jsp changes aren't being picked
> up anymore. I had to undeploy and redeploy the exploded deployment for
> the changes to be picked up.
> 
> I remember that in previous versions of AS there were some parameters
> for the jsp compiler/executor which by default enabled this check for
> jsp changes. Has this changed in AS7? Where and what values are set
> currently? Or has this got something to do with the way we handle
> exploded deployment in AS7?

Well, you have to enable either development mode, or the background
check for recompilation :)

http://pastebin.com/LY1Ca4HV

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Remy Maucherat <rmaucher at redhat.com>
Red Hat Inc