Hot Deploy for JBoss on Eclipse 3.4: Ganymede

Question

I am using Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4) to create Java EE-based web development oriented towards the JBoss 4.2 application server.

I always liked Eclipse for the Java editor. The fact is that Java EE is not as useful as you might think. This is a bug, deployment and debugging is very slow, and you must redeploy your Java EE application every time you make small changes. This makes development unbearable.

My question is: is there a plugin that will make my life easier by adding HOT DEPLOY to Ganymede when developing JBoss applications?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use JBoss tools:

http://www.jboss.org/tools

I used this when developing JBoss using Eclipse 3.4, it works well, although there are still some bugs in the plugin. All in all, although it's better.

Site update 3.4.2:

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/

EDIT . In addition, if you are working on Redhat, you can download the JBoss Developer Studio, which is "guaranteed", to provide a development environment that is stable and deployable. I have not used it, but I am interested to know if it meets these requirements:

http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio/

Answer 2

You can do this from a box with remote debugging. Connect the Eclipse debugger to JBoss, and when you complete the code change, it will be hot if possible.

There's a tutorial on this here