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

[Remy Maucherat]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:55 +0530, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> Thinking a bit more about this, I don't see any use of supporting 
> exploded deployments (out of the box) if we don't support dynamic 
> changes to .jsps (out of the box). What else can be changed dynamically 
> in an exploded deployment?

Well, everything can be easily updated, like static files, and there are
plenty of dynamic pages tech out there. JSP is actually not dynamic
because it uses compilation, although this is hidden, they are actually
servlets with a small runtime.

There are plenty of possibilities for you:
- Make your updates in place, then add a .dodeploy. That's more robust
(it allows classes changes), and still far faster to use an exploded
deployment.
- Add the development mode in the JSP config if you're working with
exploded deployments, and anticipate only JSP updates. Sorry, but this
is a rather specific situation right now, it's no longer 2001.

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