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ssciacca · ‎07-18-2018

I have a test project in Eclipse generated with maven archetype (allinone option).

I followed some tutorial on webscript in alfresco platform.

The example work fine but unfortunately the hot reloading ( configuration) of freemarker template or javascripts file does not work.

Hot reload of regular java class, also work fine, but hot reload of other resource does not work.

I can see (in the console) the hotswap message:

message Watch event 'ENTRY_MODIFY'

but when I try to test non change I do not see any changes.

For every small change (except java changes), I am forced to perform the whole procedure

clean install -DskipTests = true alfresco: run

I would appreciate your suggestions to solve the problem before starting with a serious development project.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards.

ssciacca · ‎07-18-2018

I #solved the problem!. Follow the solution (for others with the same problem).

1. I followed Using HotSwapAgent | Alfresco Documentation

2. Setup a new AllInOne project whit eclipse

3. Check patch the JVM whith DCEVM (Quick Start | HotswapAgent ) but is ok

4. Setup in Eclipse a new Maven Build "Run Configuration" whith goal

clean package -DskipTests=true alfresco:run

VM arguments:

-Xms256m -Xmx2G -javaagent:[PATH_TO_HOTSWAP_AGENT]/hotswap-agent-1.0.jar -XXaltjvm=dcevm

In previous configuration I had used "hotswap-agent-core-1.3.0.jar" because the "hotswap-agent-1.3.0.jar" library did'nt work (a handful of exceptions after launch). I this case Alfresco doc. suggests to use 1.0 version of agent.

I think this was the main problem!

5. Create a new configuration file named "hotswap-agent.properties" in the folder $PLATFORM_PROJECT_FOLDER/src/main/resource whith only the following line

autoHotswap=true

6. Run the Maven Build (prepared before: step 4)

7. The All-In-One project contains an HelloWorld Web Script implemented in Java and JS. Point the browser to http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/sample/helloworld and we can see messages from Java and from JS.

Now I can edit and hot-reload: Java class (HelloWorldWebScript), FreeMarker file (helloworld.get.html.ftl), Javascript file (helloworld.get.js).

When I save on eclipse the hot-reload happens immediately and I can see the changes on the browser !!

Thank you to Krutik for help.

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krutik_jayswal · ‎07-19-2018

Thats's great....

Adding further information for future reference....

In SDK 2.2.0 alfresco was using spring loaded for hot swap....(Rapid Application Development in Eclipse (Hot reloading) | Alfresco Documentation )

In SDK 3.0 , (which is mentioned above) is using hot swap agent for hot reloading...(Using HotSwapAgent | Alfresco Documentation )

hannahkhisty · ‎03-02-2021

Hey

Thank you for sharing the solution. I was also finding the solution and got here.

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