I had some problems with hot-reloading XHTML files using JRebel, Spring, JSF Mojarra 2.0.3 and WebLogic 10.3.
JRebel reloads regular Java classes and js/css files under /WebContent successfully, but not JSF's .xhtml files. A full republish was necessary to get xhtml files updated on the server.
By trial and error I finally got it to work by adding some facelets parameters to web.xml and creating a custom ResourceResolver as described in this blog post.
However, I wonder WHY this works, and more specifically:
JRebel handles /WebContent folder changes.
The problem is that Facelets do caching and do not reread changed files. To force reread specify the following parameters in web.xml
.
JSF 2 (Facelets 2.x):
<!-- Time in seconds that facelets should be checked for changes since last request. A value of -1 disables refresh checking. -->
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Set the project stage to "Development", "UnitTest", "SystemTest", or "Production". -->
<!-- An optional parameter that makes troubleshooting errors much easier. -->
<!-- You should remove this context parameter before deploying to production! -->
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
For JSF 1.2 (Facelets 1.x) parameters are:
<context-param>
<param-name>facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
More on JSF context params: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/6/JSF_Guide/en-US/html/jsf.reference.html#standard.config.params
That custom resource resolver is not needed in your case. That resource resolver is just a tricky way to get xhtml files from custom file system folder. In your case JRebel does that (and even more).
Here's how I fixed this for me:
facelets
plugin is enabled in your JRebel settings & Project Stage
Development
in your web.xml
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