1.4.2-SNAPSHOT (2024-03-26)

New Plugins:

• Idea pluging for developing IntelliJ IDEA in Idea
• iBatis plugin (thanks to @muwaiwai)
• jackson plugin (thanks to @liuzhengyang)
• Spring Boot plugin (thanks to @cvictory )

News

• OWB intercepted bean redefinition
• Support for jbossmodules 10.1.x
• Support for JSF ManagedBean annotations (thanks to @sinanyumak)
• compatibility with Vaadin 23 and 24

Fixes

• #404 - fix missing declaredMethodCache in java17
• #391 - Proxy redefinition support in Weld3
• #355 - VaadinPlugin does not work in hotswapagent 1.4.1 on Wildfly 19 on Windows 10
• #357 - Doesn't work with hibernate 5.4.15.final
• #369
• #383 - java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.hibernate.validator.internal.metadata.BeanMetaDataManager.__resetCache()
• #445 - fix enum field add/remove
• #463 - mybatis support mybatis-spring

1.4.1

News:

• Vaadin 14 compatibility
• Spring MVC
• Deltaspike reload optimization, fixed repository redefinition

1.4.0

Key features

• Java11 support
• Kotlin support - HotswapAgent + dcevm is succesfuly used on many Kotlin projects now

New Plugins:

• CXF-JAXRS plugin, with Spring + CDI integration & JAXB realoding
• FreeMarker plugin (thanks to AJ Banck)
• MyBatis plugin
• Undertow plugin
• Wicket plugin (thanks to T. Heigl)

New features:

• Add watchResources support to JBossModules plugin (JbossAS+Wildfly)
• Weld3 support (CDI-2.0)
• OWB2 support (CDI-2.0)
• Deltaspike 1.8, 1.9 support
• Reloading of CDI beans is skipped for simple method body modifications (using full class signature comparision)
• Support for watchResources+extraClassPath in SpringBoot applications (TomcatPlugin supports TomcatEmbeddedWebappClassLoader)
• Improve performance by skipping useless DelegatingClassLoader registration.

Fixes:

• #201 - Fix npe in Log4J2 plugin
• #218 - Exclude jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingClassLoader
• #255 - Added check to ProxyReplacer for null beans
• #264 - Fix extraClassPath in UrlClassLoader
• #269 - Fix spring plugin on wildfly 12
• #286 - change log level on reloading of Spring XML config
• #291 - Fix NPE on private enum redefinition
• #192 - Fix HA doesn't work on war deployed on Wildfly10.1

1.3.0

New Plugins:

• Vaadin
  • Register changes in @route to the router when a class is modified (add new views on the fly)
  • Changes to a template model are live after a browser refresh
  • All internal metadata caches are cleared whenever a class is changed

New features:

• HotswapAgent plugins may be included as a standard maven dependency #242

Fixes:

Agent Core:

• ERROR (org.hotswap.agent.watch.nio.EventDispatcher) - No match for watch event #223

Spring plugin:

• Spring plugin registers a managed bean for a prototype bean #241
• Spring Boot 2 projects throw NoSuchMethodException for __resetCache #221
• Cannot create proxy for spring component without default constructor #232
• HotswapSpringCallback not serializable #243

JBoss plugin:

• JBoss - Plugin not found in the registry, error on random classloader jars. #229

Other:

• Autodeploy snapshot from master to Sonatype #236
• Release to Maven #224
• maven central repos not include version 1.2.0 #234

1.2.0

New Plugins

• OpenWebBeans (Tomcat/Tommee supported)
• Mojarra
• MyFaces
• OmniFaces

New features

• Support for Java9.
• WeldPlugin - SesionScoped bean reinjection, EJB session beans support
• Deltaspike contexts reinjections
• excludedClassLoaderPatterns: comma separated list of class loaders to exclude from initialization, in the form of RegEx patterns.
• #171 - hotswap-agent.properties properties values can reference System variables defined by JVM argument -D...
• improved GlassFish support. Felix OSGi patches, GlassFish/Weld support
• #197 - multiple webappDir entries allowed. Entrypoints are separated by ',' character

Fixes:

• Jersey HK2 service reload on any change
• Weld plugin field access #161
• DeltaSpike v1.7 fixes
• JavaBeans - synthetic classes are flushed from Itrospector cache
• multi resource methods from extraClassPath, #176
• fixed problem with not started WebappClassLoader, #185
• SpringPlugin in JBossAS/Wildfly #140, #184
• Support symbolic links in extraClassPath #203

1.0

New frameworks / JVM plugins:

• ClassInit - enhance DCEVM by static variables + enum values initialization
• Hibernate 3 + 4 + 5
• Deltaspike 1.7
• RestEasy 3.0
• Spring 4.2+
• Weld 2.3, 2.4 - bean reloading in contexts + reloading strategy
• MyFaces 2.2
• Log4j 2.7
• Jersey1

Core changes:

• support to attach agent runtime to JVM process
• Allow configuration to be loaded from an external file
• _jsp.class are excluded from .class processing
• META-INF + Maven Versioning support

Minor changes:

• LOGGER timestamp format can be setup in properties file
• #154 Modify the ClassPathScanner to support URIs prefixed with "zip:"
• #145 Added support to attach agent runtime to JVM process
• #108 Allow configuration to be loaded from an external file
• #104 Adding LOGFILE.append configuration option

Bugfixes

• #155 Modifying jsp on tomcat8 threw ConcurrentModificationException
• #157 ZK label files not refreshing on change.
• _jsp.class skipped from .class processing - fixes problems with JSPs
• #141 WebObjects plugin - clear validation cache on every reload
• #124 JBossModulesPlugin on JBoss Wildfly 10
• windows NIO2 watcher patched issues with massive class reload
• #116 Fixed UndeclaredThrowableException in Spring plugin.
• #103 java.lang.RuntimeException: org.hotswap.agent.javassist.NotFoundException
• #98 Handle null ClassLoader

Current snapshot

build from master branch @ 2016/02/15

0.3 - stable

• CDI/Weld plugin
• WebObjects plugin
• Better Spring proxy support
• Fixes in Spring plugin

0.2 - stable

Several bug fixes and small development:

• Brand new Equinox/OSGI plugin (support for Eclipse RCP development)
• ELResolver fixes
• #42 annotation names cleanup ( @OnClassLoadEvent, @OnResourceFileEvent, ...)
• Seam + CDI plugins cleanup

0.1-beta4 - maintenance

Added test automation for Java 1.7, 1.8 and various Spring + Hibernate versions.

See HotswapAgentExamples/plain-servlet tests for all supported containers:

• Jetty + Tomcat - fully supported
• JBoss/Wildfly - it works, but advanced properties (extraClasspath, watchResources, webappDir) are not supported yet.
• Glassfish - does not start at all. See associated issue for manual setup.