I've had great luck using the following product for picking up class changes:
http://ssw.jku.at/dcevm/ You must run your server in debug mode for hotspot/swap to work. Saves a lot of server restarts. Mitch From: Eric Lentz <eric.le...@sherwin.com> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> Date: 07/13/2011 10:23 AM Subject: Re: struts 2.2.3 not reloading changes made to xml config > Exploded war on JBoss. The xml file is edited directly and the changes > are not picked up. Do you have to redeploy each time for the changes to > be picked up? I'm on JBoss 5 and I have to redeploy as well for struts.xml changes to be picked up (and class changes too - yuck!)