@ravening thanks for opening this issue! Yes currently we are missing an example for spring boot, I think we should create one! However, generally speaking its just a matter of the right DevSpace configuration, I don't see any problem why DevSpace shouldn't work with spring boot applications. Is there any error during devspace dev or in the logs (.devspace/logs)?

@FabianKramm Even I was thinking the same.. its just a plain hello world java application which should be same as other projects but didnt find any errors in the logs as well.

I did devspace deploy to deploy on the cluster and then devspace dev to start working on it.
If I make any changes to source code, I didnt see the package being compiled automatically.
The end point returned the same message

@ravening I will take a look at this and write a blog post about how to configure DevSpace for spring boot with hot reloading. We might add that as a java quick start guide as well.

Alright. I did not find the time to create a blog post about DevSpace and spring boot but with the latest release, we now have a java quickstart project. It shows with a very simple example how to solve java container hot reloading with DevSpace.

@ravening Is that what you were looking for? Feel free to check it out here: https://devspace.sh/cli/docs/getting-started/initialize-project

This java quickstart is very simple, sync java file and rebuild in remote container. For java spring , it's too slow. If I got time , will post a hot reload sample, like https://github.com/HotswapProjects/HotswapAgent

That looks awesome! Can't wait for you to contribute the next Java project. Thanks, @heroyin

https://github.com/heroyin/quickstart-spring-java Spring java quickstart is coming! @LukasGentele

@heroyin @LukasGentele
How it works with multii module spring boot application ? as other the main module which has *.classes pushed to the docker container , the other modules will be packaged as JAR in the libs folder of the main application .

is pushing new jar for one of the sub modules will trigger the hot code reload ?

@Romeh Sorry for the late reply. I don't know how to make it work for multi-module spring boot applications but in case you figured it out, feel free to share your solution with us :)