Hot swapping in Spring Boot

Question

I\'ve been doing a P.O.C with Spring Boot.

So far it\'s been going really good and promising, but there\'s one major drawback: I\'m using an embedded server (i.e.,

Answer 1

I do not know how far this kind of support goes, but in case you use Eclipse IDE (or anyone reading this): starting up your Spring-Boot application via m2e in debug-mode (press the "Debug"-dropdown button and pick your maven run configuration item).

It works for me like a charm.

My maven run configuration item is configured as follows:

• goal is set to "spring-boot:run"
• base directory is the project directory

I am not using any further libraries (not even spring-boot-devtools).

That's it.