Incremental hot deployment on Tomcat with Maven and NetBeans

Question

I'm using NetBeans 6.8, Tomcat 6, and Maven 2.2 and want to see changes in my code immediately in the browser (showing http://localhost:8080) after saving the file.

The tomcat-maven-plugin has the following configuration:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-beta-1</version>
</plugin>

Following to the output it should perform in-place deployment.

What can I do to see changes in my Java code immediately in the browser?

Answer 1

Take a look at JRebel. It should do what you want. Painlessly.