I should stop being stubborn and try this--I've been holding out that Sun would just add this to the JVM itself, but that seems fairly unlikely: http://bugs.su

I should stop being stubborn and try this--I've been holding out that Sun would just add this to the JVM itself, but that seems fairly unlikely: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4910812 http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4910812 Ironically, the IBM JVM has the best support for hot code replacement--you can add methods without restarting, IIRC.