Java Rebel Screencast

If you haven't seen it, you can find it here:
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/docs/javarebel-jpetstore-screencast

Guys:
Do you mind if I ask who's voice that is and what the accent is?

The voice is mine. I live in Estonia, but not sure if my accent is so Estonian.

Originally posted by David O'Meara:
Do you mind if I ask who's voice that is and what the accent is?

"Hello, my name is Jevgeni Kabanov" should give you a clue on the first part

. The demo is cool - it is so clear what is going on.

I am curious about the second half of the question too though. The accent is very easy to understand, but doesn't sound like one I recognize.

The accent is very easy to understand, but doesn't sound like one I recognize.

Well, you figure it out. My mothertongue is Russian, I speak Estonian quite freely, but I speak English at home and watch lots of movies in English (both American and not). I think it's quite a mixture.

Ah, I was concentrating on the technology

The screen cast is very nicely done, and showcases the tool nicely. After seeing it, it looked a little like magic. I had to stop and do a double-take after seeing the demonstration to absorb what I had seen

Hmmm, no worky in Safari.

There's actually also a new screencast about our new Spring plugin, which includes reloading Spring dependencies in addition to just class changes:
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel-spring-integration-screencast/

Confirm not working in Safari, we'll try to figure out why and fix it.

Cool beans. Got it going in Firefox.

Originally posted by Jevgeni Kabanov:
There's actually also a new screencast about our new Spring plugin, which includes reloading Spring dependencies in addition to just class changes:
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel-spring-integration-screencast/

OOooooOOOooooo

I'm speechless. This is great

This looks very interesting, but my question is: are there real uses of such a module?

The goal is it to be used on production platform or only on development platform?
For my part, pushing elements on a production platform so easily seems too dangerous.
And IDE allows deploying evolutions on development platforms quickly.

Chris

This is meant to be used in development mode only. We are planning production support but currently it is only a development tool.

There are real uses of such a module. The main idea is that it saves a lot of time for the developers, deployment times vary from 30seconds to 20minutes, saving those minutes just adds up.

The other main factor is context switches of the developer. Even a tiny fix requires most of the time a redeploy. You as a developer do not have to read Slashdot and just wait but can actually get instant feedback and keep going with the task at hand.

There are real uses of such a module. The main idea is that it saves a lot of time for the developers, deployment times vary from 30seconds to 20minutes, saving those minutes just adds up.

Also, it is a very repetitive and monotonous task that developers hate to do. Especially the hot deployments do not always work well and takes time too.
[ August 12, 2008: Message edited by: arulk pillai ]

Yup. Hot deployments will require the reinitialization of the servlet context, spring, hibernate or which ever library you are using

Hi Toomas,

Thanks for answer.
I agree that as a development tool, it seems interesting.
Especially since even if IDE allow us to automate the deployment, it often involves tasks unnecessary (hence wasting time).

I would have been more reluctant with the idea of using such a model on production platform; probably for fear that a developer would jump the basic steps of validation.

Chris