App Engine Standard + JRebel: Worth it?

[Patrick Jackson]

Anyone using JRebel with App Engine Standard environment?  

I briefly looked into it to see if it could increase dev - compile - deploy cycles, but not clear if this would actually help.  Looks like you would still use the same compile mechanisms and appengine dev server has a option to refresh classes without redeploy.

If anyone has tried it out it would be great to hear experience.  They claim a few seconds from editing a file to seeing changes reflected in local server, which would be amazing.

-Patrick

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Patrick, 

There is a tutorial offered in the JRebel documentation, for Eclipse, "Using JRebel in Eclipse with Google App Engine and GWT". For up-to-date information, it should be read in conjunction with "About the Google Plugin for Eclipse". It is difficult to predict how much time this would save you in the dev-compile-deploy cycle; maybe worth trying. 

Alternatively, you may also use the hot deploy facilities of Eclipse outside JRebel.