[Building Sakai] Updating component jars during development

[Colin Hebert]

I'm jumping into the discussion to ask a somewhat related question;
has someone already tried JRebel with Sakai?

If it works it could be a nice solution compared to restarting tomcat
every time.

Cheers,

Colin

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a fair question, not daft at all, but I'm afraid the restarting tomcat
> bit has to happen as that's when the components get loaded.
>
> A good approach is just to strip stuff out of your Sakai that you're not
> working on (the reasoning behind the cafe build) so it starts up quicker.
> It's also a good idea to do most of your prototype development in a webapp
> and refactor into services later, if at all. There's lots of stuff in
> components that probably shouldn't actually be there as nothing except the
> related tool ever calls it.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
>
> On 25 June 2012 14:31, Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> This may be (and probably is) a daft question, but here goes...
>>
>> If you change code which compiles to a component jar (like impl stuff), is
>> there a better (quicker/easier) way of deploying it to your dev. instance
>> than compiling it, stopping tomcat, copying the jar over, and restarting
>> tomcat?
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> R
>> ~~
>> Raad Al-Rawi
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