Friends don't let friends use Eclipse

Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse by laureny on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:40PM (#6719310)

I like IDEA a lot but I ended up going back to Eclipse because it's so much better at hotswap than IDEA. It's baffling to me that the talented engineers at JetBrains still force me to restart my servers all the time for changes that are explicitly documented in the JLS as hotswappable.

I restart servers all the time throughout the days, all the nice things that IDEA offers still do not make up for the fact that in Eclipse, I hardly have to restart any process ever as long as the changes I made to my Java code are hotswappable.

There's that and the fact that Eclipse's incremental compilation is hard to give up (another thing I don't understand why IDEA hasn't caught up to).

At any rate, anyone who says that one of these two IDE's is awesome while the other one sucks probably needs to take a hard look at the way they work and question their skill at assessing tools.

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Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse by LaSombra on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:36AM (#6724353)

Have you tried exploded deployment? I don't have a problem with it usually

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Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse by laureny on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:38PM (#6730185)

I tried both exploded deployment (artifact) and through Maven (tomcat:run), no difference: IDEA pretends it has reloaded the new code but it hasn't, so I lost trust in it completely and now I just restart all the time. It's much more efficient with Eclipse.

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Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse by mirkoadari on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:57PM (#6719440)

Have you looked at JRebel?

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Re:Friends don't let friends use Eclipse by laureny on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:30PM (#6719741)

Yes, JRebel is great but not free.

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