January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
10h 34m
English
Spring Boot DevTools (https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using-boot-devtools.html) enables Spring Boot applications to reload the embedded server when there is a change in the classpath. It states the following:
And it does exactly that. It uses a custom classloader to restart the application when a class is updated and recompiled, and since the server is hot reloaded, it is much faster than a cold restart.
It isn't as cool as JRebel or similar technologies, which perform instant reloads, but it beats doing it manually, and doesn't require any extra configuration to work. ...
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