Play framework module - eclipse development environment setup

Question

I have developed a module using Play Framework. This module is used by multiple Play framework projects. Each time I change any code in the module I need to build the module and deploy it inside my other main applications. I do not want to do this step while doing the development in Eclipse. I only want to build the module when deploying in server. Is there any way my which I can achieve this - I do code change in module in eclipse all projects using this module automatically get the changes.

Thank you

Answer 1

If it's play 1.2 you can declare your module to be loaded from local repository: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.4/dependency#repositories (section "Local repositories").

Play should then compile your module and always load latest sources when you start your app. You might have issues if your modules use some jar deployed classes (not in app directory), then you would need to execute play build-module .