Release of JavaRebel 1.2 (Aug 26, 2008)
The release of JavaRebel 1.2 has been announced recently, including a Plugin Support for run-time relooad of Spring configuration delivering a faster program development. JavaRebel is a java-agent that provides a JVM plugin that reloads the java class files modifications on run-time to save the time for the developers that spans due to the application redeployment. It works for both Java EE and SE specifications.
Features:
The changes made to this new release that is intended for stability and extensibility of the product are -
(i) Core Enhancement: The changes made to the core of JavaRebel enables now to deal with any form of abstract code and any type of container therein.
(ii) Reworked Open Source SDK: The new API and configuration changes in SDK makes it possible for developers to reload any part of the library code located anywhere.
(iii) New Plugins support: A simple plugin will now support any custom container or a classloader including Equinox OSGi container, IBM WebSphere and Atlassian Confluence plugins.
In addtion to this, a Spring framework plugin is also available in this release which will enable the injection of Spring dependencies without the reloading of the Bean factory.
Supported JVMs:
· Sun Java 1.4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
· JRockit JVM 8.1sp6 or later and JRockit JVM 9.x 1.5.0_06 or later.
· IBM J9 1.4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
· Apple MRJ 1.4.x and 5.x.
Supported Containers:
· BEA Weblogic 8.x, 9.x and 10.x.
· GlassFish v2.
· Oracle OC4J 9.x and 10.x.
· Tomcat 4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
· JBoss 3.x and 4.x (on Java 5 or later).
· Jetty 5.x and 6.x (on Java 5 or later).
· Equinox OSGi including Eclipse plugins.
· IntelliJ IDEA plugins.
Read more…
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/download/
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/plugins/