For the impatient: see the screencast and download.

Spring is nowadays one of the most popular frameworks for developing enterprise Java applications. It is therefore our greatest pleasure to announce that with the release of JavaRebel 1.2-M2 and the JavaRebel Spring plugin 1.0-M1 it is now possible to develop Spring applications without redeploying the container.

JavaRebel Spring plugin takes advantage of JavaRebel class reloading to reload Spring dependencies. It supports registering new Spring beans, adding/removing dependencies and adding new MVC controllers and handler methods. These can be done using either XML configuration or annotations.

We have prepared a screencast that demonstrates extending Petclinic sample application on-the-fly. You can also check out the Spring plugin installation manual or just proceed to download.

Although we have tested the plugin in several environments it should be considered a beta release and is not guaranteed to work perfectly in your application. However the plugin is open source and we welcome both your feedback and contributions to make future releases better.

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