I want to implement an IDEA plug-in based on HA to achieve remote hot deployment

[KevinClair]

Hello, HA is a very useful tool for me. When using IDEA Plugin, I found that it can only realize hot deployment of local language, such as HotSwapHelper, by the way, it is a good IDEA Plugin, easy to use.
Now I want to develop an IDEA Plugin based on HA to realize remote hot deployment.
For example, select a changed file in IDEA Plugin and push them to the remote Linux server (maybe a specific directory), and then HA will update the class file after monitoring the file changes.
Is there any solution to realize this function?

[skybber]

Great idea! I don’t know of any such solution, nor do I know how to implement deployment to a remote environment (using HA?). Otherwise, part of the problem is addressed by a debugger that can update classes in a remote JVM, but it doesn’t save them to .class files and can’t add new classes. So, such a plugin would definitely be interesting and would expand the current capabilities of remote debugging.

[KevinClair]

When starting a java application on a Linux server, and starting HA via -javaagent, is it possible to update .class files by placing the changed files in a special path and then have HA monitor changes to the files in this path?

[skybber]

Yes, it is possible. There are 2 configuration parameters - extraClasspath and autoHotswap designed for this purpose. Look at :

https://hotswapagent.org/mydoc_configuration.html