Can JRebel reload Kotlin classes when they are used by kotlin-maven-plugin plugin on maven?

Question

Can JRebel reload Kotlin classes when they are used by kotlin-maven-plugin plugin on Maven?

The project runs on an application server.

Answer 1

JRebel will reload kotlin classes provided they are compiled either via IDE or manually by invoking maven compile.

Also the classes must either be compiled to the path specified in the rebel.xml or to the classloader's classpath(e.g. when using exploded deployment with target/classes or target/artifact-name/WEB-INF/classes as the root).

Usually achieving this requires no extra steps and it should be just: Enable JRebel -> Start server & deploy application -> Make changes -> make/compile to reload

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