What's the ideal setup for a quick turnaround in jee development?

You should use JBoss Tools plugins for Eclipse JBoss Tools 3.3M2 is compatible with Indigo and JBoss AS 7 (which is 10 times faster than JBoss 6 for redeploy).

You should use JBoss Tools plugins for Eclipse. JBoss Tools 3.3M2 is compatible with Indigo and JBoss AS 7 (which is 10 times faster than JBoss 6 for redeploy). Regarding an equivalent to Seam Gen with CDI, you should really take a look to Seam Forge which is included in JBoss Tools 3.3 now.

Finally I'm using Jrebel to reload class and configuration without restarting the server. But for now it doesn't work yet with JBoss AS 7, so if you stick with JBoss AS 6 it's a goof combination.

Thank you for the hint, I'll have a look at that for sure. Had a quick test with JBoss 7, it's really fast, but it won't take my deployment artefacts as it, so I have to investigate it further. Speaking of Seam Forge, I heard of it as a base for projects, but how would you use it in eclipse?

Also Jrebel I heard of, but since it's commercial, I would prefer another solution. – Geziefer Jul 18 at 15:19 JRebel is commercial for sure, but it's the only solution to my knowledge that allows total hot redeployment. If don't want you'll have to restart your server in most of the cases.It's where JBoss AS7 could be a good solution since it's really fast.

I don't understand what you mean with it won't take my deployment artefacts as it could you give me more information? Anyway you really should use JBoss Tools and it's WTP extension for JBoss AS 7 (JBoss tools 3.3 M2 only), that should solve this issue. Regarding Seam Forge, it is provided in JBoss tools 3.3 (you have a Seam Forge view).

– Antoine Sabot-Durand Jul 19 at 9:06 I was assuming that I could throw my JAR or WAR artefact into the deploy folder and it would just work, but JBoss was complaining about some class level annotations and I haven't had the time for a deeper look. In seam-gen projects at least they had a mechanism to hotdeploy part of the classes and exchange static files due to an exploded layout, that in conjunction with a fast server startup would suffice. Concerning Forge, I thought I had installed all tools, but Forge was indeed missing.

I'll give it a try. – Geziefer Jul 19 at 9:58.

This might not be the answer to your question, but if you want Java and fast turnaround look at playframework.org/ your script colleagues will be astounded.

For Eclipse to work well, use Eclipse JEE edition and then add the JBoss server adapter. The usual WTP-tooling then works for automatic deployments etc.

I did that, but 1) it did not automatically deploy after saving a file like I saw it with Netbeans and GlassFish and 2) after doing a full publish it produced errors about not being able to replace some temp files and the only way to solve it was restarting the server. This experience corresponds with the article mentioned below. – Geziefer Jul 15 at 13:13.

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