jetty:run-exploded updating static resources

Question

I'm running a maven project which has a war dependency. I have a couple of resources specific to the actual project which is located in src/main/webapp.

When I start developing the project using mvn jetty:run-exploded, the project gets assembled in target/ with its overlay applied.

When running Linux, if I update resources in src/main/webapp - within seconds the update is applied to its target directory as well. However, on Windows, the target is never updated until I stop and rerun maven. I've applied a custom webdefault.xml for jetty to disable jetty's file-locking.

Anyone has this kind of setup working on Windows?

Answer 1

JRebel can do what you want. Not sure of a native Maven way to achieve this. See the JRebel configuration docs for more info if you're interested.