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

I've been using the Spring Loaded JVM agent to avoid restarting Tomcat or reloading the application (which can take a while for Spring web apps). I configure my Tomcat server in Eclipse along with "Automatically publish when resources change" to get changes to take effect nearly immediately.

If you use Eclipse with Tomcat integrated (WTP), you can see the steps I took here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37064672/1034436