Best way to fast-deploy app when debugging?

Hello all,

I am creating a Spring Web MVC project, and debugging it in a Tomcat 6.0 server which I have added to my Servers tag. It has all the libraries required to run a Spring project, in fact, I copied all .jars in tc_server/lib and tc_server/lib/ext to my tomcat installation.

About my project, it is a Maven Project, I am using SpringSource TS (latest version), Spring 3.

I am finding it hard to debug my @Controllers: in order to see the changes in code (or XML configuration files), I have to:

• Remove the application from the server
• "Clean" the server (using the Clean option when right-clicking on it)
• Cleaning the Tomcat working directory
• Run As -> Maven Clean
• Run As -> Maven build
• Run As -> Maven install
• and finally Run As -> Run on server

Do I really need to go through all of those steps every time I change a single thing?

How do you guys do it? Maybe I am missing something here, because this way can be hell!

Cheers,

Luis Serrano
Barcelona, Spain

Hi Luis,

You know, I just happen to be working on some enhancements in this area - but they aren't yet in a state for release in STS. However, I spoke to someone about your situation and they pointed me at the recent article/screencast:

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/07...vc-3-showcase/

You might want to watch that and see how Keith handles it.

cheers
Andy
---
Andy Clement
SpringSource