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

[Jaikiran Pai]

That worked, thanks!

Any chance we can enable this by default for the standalone server?

-Jaikiran
On Thursday 21 April 2011 06:01 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote:
> 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
>