Spring Devtools triggers restart when changing excluded files

Question

I have a Spring Boot Web Project that uses Joinfaces and Primefaces. The application extends from SpringBootServletInitializer and also ge

Answer 1

The solution to my main problem might be relatively easy.

I've added the webapp folder as Source Folder in Eclipse. As soon as I've removed the folder from the list of source folders, the reload was no longer triggered when I changed something in the xhtml files.

This answer gave me the idea, that the source folder might be the problem.