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Intellij Idea + JRebel, I dont have to reload stuff with my Java application.

One usually uses JRebel instead of redeploying an app in TC/Jetty.

>Compared to redeploying an entire Tomcat/Jetty app, this is several orders of magnitude better.

It is? Are you building a war/ear and copying it to a server to deploy or something? I think every java IDE has support for locally building and deploying within the IDE, which is no slower than play's reloading.

For simple setups, that can work. JRebel can help. For more complex servlet apps, especially those with Spring lifecycle management, this rarely works, which means a full redeploy after almost every Java change.