hot incremental deployment of xhtml files and facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD

[gonorrhea]

There is a facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD web.xml init parameter.  I have never used this but it sounds at least tangentially related to Seam hot incremental deployment of facelets:

This is the period, in seconds, in which the compileris is checking for changes after a page is requested.  Lower values are useful during development, as you can edit your page in a running application, and the page will be compiled.  The default is 2.

source: Facelets Essentials book

anybody have any tips on how this should be configured in dev?  I've noticed that sometimes when I F5 my browser doesn't refresh the UI component tree and/or CSS/code, etc. as I expected it to...

And does the F5 always issue the last command (i.e. either HTTP GET or HTTP POST)?  thx.

[amitev]

I use 2 in dev and -1 in production and it works fine. Check out the deployment period of your ide!

F5 always issues the last command - this is a browser behaviour.

[amitev]

If you want to perform a really full refresh use ctrl+F5. This ignores even the browser's cache.