I am running a spring boot application on an embedded tomcat server on eclipse in my local environment with spring dev tools enabled. And I also have spring web flow configured in the application. Below are the version details.
Spring Boot 1.5.3.RELEASE
Spring Web Flow 2.4.4.RELEASE
The pom for dev-tools is configured as
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
My devtools configuration for livereload and restart in "application.properties" under resources is
spring.devtools.livereload.enabled=true
spring.devtools.restart.additional-exclude=/webapp/**,WEB-INF/view/**
spring.devtools.restart.enabled=true
With the above properties set, livereload and auto-restart work without any problems. But the spring-webflow related functionality doesn't work in the application.
Since its a known issue that spring-dev-tools and spring-web-flow don't play nice, I had to put this property as a workaround fix in "spring-devtools.properties" file under /resources/META-INF as shown below.
restart.include.spring=/spring-[\\s\\S]+\.jar
This property fixed the spring-web-flow problem but the livereload server doesn't start. The server console log as well doesn't show that it has started the livereload server on so and so port.
I am unable to pinpoint the what is causing this problem.
Can anyone help?
Update: I can't seem to make this work. I think the workaround fix mentioned above is including the dev-tools classes as well in the Restart Classloader and hence preventing the livereload server from starting up.
Correct me If I am wrong.
