Provide application auto-configuration to provide remote endpoint
support along with a client-side application that can be used to
establish connections.
See gh-3086
Add MVC style Dispatcher, Mapper and Handler classes to support remote
server calls. Spring MVC is not used directly since it may not be on the
classpath (for example if the user is developing a Jersey application).
See gh-3086
Update the `Restarter` so that class files and resources can change
independently of the underlying source folders. This change will
allow updates to be pushed to a remotely running application, without
requiring the application to run in an exploded form.
See gh-3086
Add a "restart" Spring `Scope` that remains between application
restarts. Allows beans such as the livereload server to remain active
during restarts and not disconnect clients.
See gh-3085
Add a minimal server to support livereload.com browser plugins. Includes
a partial websocket implementation to save needing a dependency to
spring-websocket.
See gh-3085
Add auto-configuration for application Restarts. Restarts are enabled
by default (when not running from a fat jar) and will be triggered when
any classpath folder changes.
The ClassPathRestartStrategy additional customization of when a full
restart is required. By default a PatternClassPathRestartStrategy with
patterns loaded from DeveloperToolsProperties.
Closes gh-3084
Add Restarter class that can be used to restart a running application
when underlying class files change. The Restarter is automatically
initialized via a ApplicationListener and automatically detects
classpath URLs that are likely to change (when not running from a fat
jar).
See gh-3084
Add a parent last classloader for use with application restarts. The
classloader provides a layer on top of the regular classloader to
contain the classes that might change when an application is restarted.
See gh-3084
Add a filesystem watcher that can be used to inform listeners of
changes (add, delete, modify) to files in specific source folders.
The implementation uses a background thread rather than the WatchService
API to remain compatible with Java 6 and because WatchService is slow on
OSX.
See gh-3084
Add auto-configuration to automatically apply properties that make
sense during application development. Currently the single property
`spring.thymeleaf.cache` is set to `false`.
Closes gh-3083
Phillip Webb
Andy Clement