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

From 1.3.0. (now in Milestone 2) on, you can use the spring-boot-devtools for that as a lightweigt approach - see the docs or this blogpost. Simply upgrade to >= 1.3.0. and add the following to your pom.xml:

  
    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-devtools
  

Than start your SpringBootApplication with Run As... and you´re fine.