[kylewburke]

I have been trying to get HotSwap working for the past day and a half. The breakpoints are being picked up but the changes are not redeployed and the debugger isn’t able to find the source code, despite the fact that I point it to the my src directory. I have the following configuration:

MyEclipse 5.0.1
JDK1.6
JBoss 4.0.5
Ant 1.7

The app is deployed as an exploded ear. Any clues as to what I’m doing wrong?

[Greg]

Are you trying to hot swap Java classes or JSP files? You mentioned ant, are you using MyEclipse to package and deploy the ear in exploded format?

[kylewburke]

Sorry, I meant to mention deployment format. I am trying to hotswap the body of methods in classfiles. I’m using my custom Ant build file to build and deploy an exploded .ear (with exploded .war and xxx-ejb.jar). It’s actually an EJB3 Session Bean I’m trying to change. Is it a requirement that I use the MyEclipse build facility?

[Greg]

Ah ok. Yeah the MyEclipse Web Projects have special builder attached to them that “hot-sync” all classes and resources for exploded deployments.

[kylewburke]

Any way to make use of that builder for acustom file?

I don’t use Web Projects because I don’t like being forced to conform to MyEclipse’s idea of a project tree (WebRoot folder, etc).

[Scott Anderson]

Sorry, but it’s that idea of a project tree (which is an exploded WAR format) that allows the automated tooling to facilitate packaging, deployment, and debugging.

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