Incremental publishing should be enabled by default. Check it in Server Configuration Editor by double clicking on server isntance in Servers view expanding Publishing grop in the right top corner (see emage below)

Hi Kevin,

Changes to html, xhtml, jsf, images and other dynamically loaded resources should take effect immediately.

Changes to .class files do not get automatically reloaded by JBoss (for various reasons, mostly related to have Java classloading works and that

if you are testing your application then triggering a reload of application/module will break your running session etc.) .

We know that can be annoying and thus we introduced a "Application reload behavior" in the server section where you can setup a regular expression to

trigger on what files you want a module restart to happen.

In here the default expression is: ".jar$" which means if it sees a file ending with jar be deployed it will trigger an application reload.

But it will not reload if just a single .class is changed.

If you change it to ".jar$|.class$" then it will trigger a restart on every .jar/.class change.

This gives a good balance since then when changing *.xhtml you do not see a forced restart.

of course if you want to be truly agressive you can set the expression to ".*" and you will see restarts of your module on *every* change.

I'm currently using JBoss Dev Studio 5.0.1GA with AS7.1.0Final and the automatical publishing even of html and jsp pages does not always happen automatically, even with the setting mentioned above set. It seems to work for some projects but not others. For projects which it is not working with, the only way to get a change to a jsp reflected on the server is to do a full publish.

Any ideas where I can look or what settings I should look at?

Are the files actually published into the server deployments folder in exploded/unzipped form ?

if not then AS7 won't hotredeploy.

jsp pages AS7 does not hot compile by default - maybe that is what is causing you problems ?