I’m giving a try to IntelliJ IDEA in order to completely switch to it from Netbeans.
I’m currently trying it in a maven+spring+hibernate webapp and it seems that for every changes in simple files html, jsp, ftl, I have to rebuild and rerun the configuration to publish to tomcat.
Normally with Netbeans I don’t need to do that, it will publishes the changes to the server for me out of the box. Is there anything I didn’t setup correctly or this feature is just missing?
Use the exploded deployment configuration and Update action.
You can configure what is performed on Update and also make IDEA update your application automatically on frame deactivation (when you switch from IDEA to the browser).