Getting JRebel to work with 'mvn tomcat:run'

Question

I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of getting JRebel to work when I execute \'mvn tomcat:run\' from the command line. I can get JRebel to work in my

Answer 1

doesn't setting MAVEN_OPTS system variable help?

Just and example:

1. mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
2. cd my-webapp
3. to pom.xml of your example add the following:
   
     org.zeroturnaround
     jrebel-maven-plugin
    
     
       generate-rebel-xml
       process-resources
       
         generate
       
     
    
   
   
4. set MAVEN_OPTS=-javaagent:/path/to/jrebel.jar
5. mvn tomcat:run

In the console you'll see message from JRebel like these:

JRebel: Directory 'C:\projects\my-webapp\target\classes' will be monitored for changes.
JRebel: Directory 'C:\projects\my-webapp\src\main\webapp' will be monitored for changes.