How does JRebel know what classes have been changed?
JRebel monitors the folders from which classes are loaded and those which are specified in the rebel.xml configuration file.
JRebel uses the operation system's functionality to notify applications about file changes. For system where this is not supported, JRebel will check a file's last modified timestamp to determine if it has changed.
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