[Building Sakai] Updating component jars during development

[Steve Swinsburg]

I tried JRebel again a few months back but couldn't get it to work with Sakai. It would be great if someone could though.

Cheers,
Steve

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On 25/06/2012, at 23:55, Colin Hebert <colin.hebert at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>>> ~~
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