How to configure Jetty to reload a WebAppContext when classes are changed
- by Guss
I'm developing a web application and I run Jetty as the development and testing environment when I develop under Eclipse.
When I make changes to Java classes, Eclipse automatically compiles them to the build directory, but Jetty won't see the changes until I stop and start the server. I know that Jetty supports "hot deployment" using ContextDeployer that will refresh updated application contexts, but it relies on a context file in a context directory being updated - which is not very useful in my case.
Is there a way to set up Jetty so that it will reload the web app when any of the classes it uses is updated?
My current jetty.xml looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">
<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
<Set name="ThreadPool"><!-- bla bla --></Set>
<Call name="addConnector"><!-- bla bla --></Call>
<Set name="handler">
<New id="Handlers" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection">
<Set name="handlers">
<Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Handler">
<Item>
<New id="webapp" class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
<Set name="displayName">My Web App</Set>
<Set name="resourceBase">src/main/webapp</Set>
<Set name="descriptor">src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</Set>
<Set name="contextPath">/mywebapp</Set>
</New>
</Item>
<Item>
<New id="DefaultHandler" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.DefaultHandler"/>
</Item>
</Array>
</Set>
</New>
</Set>
</Configure>
