Using an IDE while developing on a docker container

Question

There is something that I am not getting when developing an application while using docker containers.

Lets say I am developing a java application and

Answer 1

I can feel your pain. Developing projects that have multiple library dependencies can make the building process a lot more time consuming, each time a change has been made. This can get frustrating.

Fortunately you can fix this problem by writing your DockerFile by using maven-docker-plugin https://github.com/spotify/docker-maven-plugin.

This will save use already library dependencies available on your host.

As an example i have a pull request open at an open source repository here: https://github.com/iotaledger/iri/pull/481/files