Is it possible to reflect changes in portal-ext.properties without restarting whole Liferay portal?

Question

My problem is every time after changing the Liferay portal-properties (and this is frequent especially at beginning of a new portal project) I need to restart the whole portal.

Some properties I can set over hook and these values will be changed after redeployment. Also that must be possible to change most portal properties at run time.

However, do you know some approach to reflect changes in portal-ext.properties without restarting Liferay portal?

Answer 1

As stoldark mentioned, this is not possible in a production environment at all. Since portal.properties's properties are loaded at portal start-up.

But for development you can use a tool like JRebel, some steps to configure it here. The only issue you would get with this tool is that it is paid ;-).