Tomcat and Eclipse Zero Turnaround Deployment

Question

I want to be able to deploy code changes to Tomcat (near instantly), while I\'m developing in Eclipse.

So far, I have my output from Eclipse placing the built classe

Answer 1

Maybe the Web Tools Project of Eclipse with auto-redeploy enabled will help you? Add a server, open properties and under Publishing you will see a radiobutton saying "Automatically publish when resources changes". This will result in a redeploy if classes changes otherwise just overwrites resources. You can install WTP via a built in update site (Eclipse only), so check out your software updates. It is free for most servers but it does not support certain Websphere features?