STS Agent Class Reloading exclusion

[youngm]

I use the STS Agent Class Reloading quite frequently. It is a great feature.

I've run into an issue though where a class in my project is too big to be loaded/reloaded by the STS Agent. (https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2189)

I've found an option that can be specified on the reloading feature that would "include" a set of classes as candidates for reloading. But I haven't yet found a way to "exclude" a class. It is difficult to include all the classes in my project except for this one class that is too big to be loaded.

Is there an option to exclude a class instead of including all classes except this one?

Thanks,
Mike

[Andy Clement]

Hi Mike,

Sorry I haven't gotten around to addressing that issue of yours yet.

There is an exclusions setting, on the -Dspringloaded setting you can add (after a semicolon)

exclusions=com.foo.bar.Something

(basically an AspectJ type pattern).

but that hasn't gotten a whole lot of regression tests covering it. I can't quite recall how it will play with some of the other behaviour.

I will try and find some time to better handle enums like this.

cheers,
Andy