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

In Intellij, I can get this behavior. When the program is running in debug mode, select Run > Reload Changed Classes

Note: After Intellij completes the action, it might say Loaded classes are up to date. Nothing to reload. This is misleading, because it actually DID reload your classpath resources.

My environment/setup includes:
Intellij 13
Embedded Tomcat
Run/Debug configuration of type 'Application' (which just uses a main class)
Serving static html, css and js (no jsp)