Magnolia Devcat Server
A fast alternative to Apache Tomcat boosting Java developer performance.
It supports fast startup times, auto-login and unlimited hotswap Java class reloading to speed up edit, compile, test turnaround cycles.
Features
Devcat comes with the following features:
- fast server startup times, including parallel webapp starting or individual startup for author or public instances only
- hotswap-agent support for Java unlimited runtime class redefinition, bringing the ease of Magnolia light-development also to Java
- auto-login, no more typing “superuser” / “superuser” as login
- server-port selection via command line, to easily start multiple server instances in parallel
- colorized log-output for improved log readability
Usage
The devcat server supports the following command line parameters:
usage: devcat command line options:
-a,--author-only start author webapp only
-e,--extra-class-path <arg> extra class-path to search for hotswap
classes, overrides '--source-dir' option
-g,--hotswap-agent-support enable hotswap-agent support
-h,--help show this help message
-l,--login <arg> login credentials as
'<username>:<password>', if only '-l' is
given 'superuser:superuser' is used as
default login
-p,--port <arg> port for webapp server, default: 55555
-q,--sequential-webapp-start start requested webapps sequentially, by
default all webapps are started in
parallel
-s,--source-dir <arg> directory with Maven project root pom.xml
to search recursively for 'target/classes'
as extra-class-path for hotswap class
reloading
-t,--tomcat-dir <arg> directory with Magnolia tomcat
installation
-u,--public--only start public webapp only
-w,--webapp-dirs <arg> webapp directory list to search for
'WEB-INF/web.xml', overrides
'--tomcat-dir' option
Most commonly the command line would use the –tomcat-dir (-t), –source-dir (-s) and the –login (-l) options, e.g.
devcat.sh -t ./apache-tomcat/ -s ./<my-magnolia-modules-dir>/ -l
Supposing that you installed apache-tomcat using the Magnolia jumpstart and your Magnolia Maven modules are inside <my-magnolia-modules-dir>.
in conjunction with –tomcat-dir option you can use –author-only (-a) or –public-only (-u) to only start one webapp and thus cut server startup time to half.
If you have non-standard Magnolia webapp installations use the –webapp-dirs (-w) option to list all webapp folders having a WEB-INF/web.xml inside that should be started, e.g.
devcat.sh -w <folder-a>/magnoliaAuthor <folder-b>/magnoliaPulic-1 <folder-c>/magnoliaPulic-2
If you have your classes compiled into a non-Maven structure you can use the –extra-class-path (-e) option like e.g.
devcat.sh -t ./apache-tomcat/ -e <folder-x>/classes:<folder-y>/classes:<folder-z>/classes
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