JRebel Setup in Hybris development environment

Why JRebel?

• Improves Productivity.
• No need to restart hybris frequently, which saves a lot of time to see development changes.

Steps to Configure JRebel

1. Download JRebel from this Link
2. Extract the zip file to some location, c:\jrebel
3. Set the JREBEL_HOME environment variable to the directory of JRebel install. In this case, it would be c:\jrebel
4. Install the jrebel plugin for your IDE. This plugin will allow you to configure the required hybris extensions.
   1. Eclipse: JRebel Plugin
      1. Sample screenshot of Eclipse:
         

         
   2. IntelliJ IDEA: JRebel Plugin
5. Modifications to local.properties: add the following property to your local.properties  tomcat.debugjavaoptions:
   -javaagent:”%JREBEL_HOME%/jrebel.jar”
6. Start your hybris server with hybrisserver.bat debug
7. Any class update (not model updates) to hybris should be done with ant build, NOT ant all