RE: Support of Visual Age... update

Gary,

By container I assume you mean the Servlet container.  Reloading
seems to work just fine for Servlets for me in VAJ. What is strange
is that it works even with older Servlet containers that do not even
attempt to support dynamic reloading. Mostly, I use Tomcat 4.0.1,
which is pretty good at detecting changes and reloading even
outside of VAJ.

There are some cases like static final classes where it won't work
and I know that some techniques for dynamic class loading cause
problems but that is pretty rare. It takes some finagling, mostly to
get Jasper or whatever you might use to compile at run time
working within VAJ.

David Morris

>>> garyp@firstech.com 01/15/02 02:45PM >>>
> From: David Morris
> Gary,
>
> I like to outline my program and code it as I go in the
> debugger. In the version I am running I cannot see any way to
> reload an executing class like you can with VAJ. Please tell
> me that I am missing something.


Hmm...  I've never tried that before in VAJ.  Most of my work lately
is
in servlets and EJBs so I need to restart the application in the
container anyway and that is not an option for me.  But, I can see
where
it would be pretty cool for straight applications.

I couldn't find anything mentioned in bugzilla for Eclipse but the
help
topic "Server-side debugging" contains the sentence:  "Hot method
replace will be supported in a future release of WebSphere Studio."  I
think this is what you're looking for.

Still, it would be good if you could document your requirement in
bugzilla for the Eclipse folks.

Gary