How to make Netbeans hotdeploys to Glassfish faster?

Question

On changing a single line of code or just adding a comment line, netbeans redeploys the entire project to server, which eats up lot of development/debugging time. I know, I can disable the hot deploys but I don't want that, I just want to make hot deploys work faster so that I could test changes faster on browser. Moreover in debugging mode it is even worse in terms of time taken for deployment.

Is there something I can do about ? Or should I do hot deploys some other way ?

Answer 1

I dont know any way of doing it in Netbeans itself, but you can always take a look at JRebel.

This tool monitors your class folders and hotdeploys them to the application server when a file has changed. I use this in Eclipse with Tomcat and it works very good for me.