Having to restart tomcat whenever you make a change

Question

Is there a way around having to restart tomcat every time a small change is made in java code?

Answer 1

Even if Tomcat is generally very fast on the startup, it depends very much on your application, how quickly it can initialize itself. If there is a damn big Spring application context, with all kinds of integrations and Hibernate mappings, I'd be pretty sure that the boot will take 1,5 seconds to start Tomcat, but 1,5 minutes to start your application. JRebel could really help here.