After working for iText for nine months, I’ve now turned back to consultancy and the web application world.
The web application I’m working in is rather big and redeploying takes time. Luckily the JRebel guys were so friendly to offer me a 3 month license. I hope this three months is enough to convince the guys at my current job location that investing in JRebel is really worth it’s money! (1 week should be enough to convince them, look at the time savings for 2 days down here)
Look what JRebel did:
Over the last 2 days JRebel prevented
at least 79 redeploys/restarts saving you about 3.2 hours.
Otherwise:
Oct 17, 2011 11:44:56 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 210210 ms
Of course during the time of restarts/redeploys you can do other stuff, thus the 3.2 hours is not really the saved time. ( I would say 1.6 would be more realistic.)
What does JRebel do?
JRebel reloads the changed classes and files inside your container. Thanks to this you don’t need to restart and/or redeploy for every change you make. You can instantly see what changed. It even watches your spring configuration, logging configuration, your defined properties files and more for changes and applies the changes to your environment without the need to restart.
I can only say: “Once you go JRebel you never want to go back without it!”
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