Getting JRebel to work with 'mvn tomcat:run'

Question

I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of getting JRebel to work when I execute \'mvn tomcat:run\' from the command line. I can get JRebel to work in my

Answer 1

When I tried it today. I didn't see my changes being reflected at run time. I had to relauch application to see changes take it effect

Answer 2

doesn't setting MAVEN_OPTS system variable help?

Just and example:

1. mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
2. cd my-webapp
3. to pom.xml of your example add the following:
   <plugin>
     <groupId>org.zeroturnaround</groupId>
     <artifactId>jrebel-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <executions>
      <execution>
       <id>generate-rebel-xml</id>
       <phase>process-resources</phase>
        <goals>
         <goal>generate</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
     </executions>
   </plugin>
   
4. set MAVEN_OPTS=-javaagent:/path/to/jrebel.jar
5. mvn tomcat:run

In the console you'll see message from JRebel like these:

JRebel: Directory 'C:\projects\my-webapp\target\classes' will be monitored for changes.
JRebel: Directory 'C:\projects\my-webapp\src\main\webapp' will be monitored for changes.

Answer 3

If you happen to execute tomcat:run within eclipse and have the JRebel eclipse plugin installed, you can also simply enable JRebel on the run configuration.