3 ms·

What is hot swapping?

• ZoFreX 12y ago
  Replacing code while it's running. Currently this is possible but quite limited in the official JDK, you can only replace the contents of method bodies. Edit: Demo of it in action here, notch is rapidly developing a game in Eclipse by changing the code while it's running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c
  • exabrial 12y ago
    There's always JRebel!
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      Not really. http://zeroturnaround.com/blog/goodbye-liverebel/ http://zeroturnaround.com/blog/goodbye-liverebel/
      • curiousCoffee 12y ago
        Oh, damn! I just started using jrebel.. (I know I asked what hotswapping was but I was curious if the OP meant hotswapping in the same way as jrebel or something else) edit: Wait, that is liverebel, not jrebel
        • pjmlp 12y ago
          Ah, sorry! I though liverebel was the new name.
  • andor 12y ago
    notch is rapidly developing a game in Eclipse He's modifying the Swing object tree from the main thread! Don't do that, Swing isn't thread safe ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c#t=1454 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c#t=1454 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/package-summary.html#threading http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/package...