Setting up hot deployment with eclipse and Jboss

Question

I am used to work with rails locally where I can use any text editor I please while I have the server running. If I make changes to a file Webrick, it will pick it up and I am able to see the changes on the page.

Can I do this with eclipse? I am using Atom for html editing but every time I save the changes and reload the page, the changes are not done. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Is your project an Eclipse Web project associated with a server in the Eclipse Servers view? If so, double-click on the server and you'll be able to tweak a few thing. The interesting option would be Automatically publish when resources change under Publishing .

PS: if you're using Java Enterprise or JBoss technologies, you can add JBoss Tools on top of your Eclipse IDE, it features some features and default settings that should make things simpler for you.

Answer 2

I've found the answer by going to eclipse in Preferences > General > Workspaces > Refresh using native hooks or polling

This way I am able to edit html files with Atom. Hope it helps someone

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