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I was told that in Eclipse you can be developing a webapp, changing a Java file and when you save it, the file is automatically compiled and hotswapped onto the running web server. That sounds like a huge time saver to me. I am proposing we add an option for similar behavior such that when files are saved, they are automatically compiled and hotswapped into the web-server. I don't need to mention how long it takes to redeploy a webapp in the current configuration. It is a *huge* waste of time. I know this feature exists as a menu option, but I am saying we shouldn't have to do this manually. I see a whole benefit for this feature for webapp development but it might be useful for application development as well.
We can do that after we have automatic compilation, like Eclipse have it. I did not find an enhancement for auto-compilation in IZ though, but it might be planned for some next version...
Reassigning to web component for consideration.
(In reply to comment #1) > We can do that after we have automatic compilation, like Eclipse have it. > I did not find an enhancement for auto-compilation in IZ though, but it might > be > planned for some next version... Now that we have automatic compilation (i.e. Compile on Save) is this feature implementable?
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