GrChaos (Groovy Chaos Appliction Framework)

GrChaos is a powerful runtime howswap groovy application framework. It is a huge upgrade of chaopeng/groovy-hotswap-demo.

How to use it?

1. download GrChaos-Starter
2. add bin/grchaos-starter to $PATH
3. run grchaos-starter in the dir you want to create a GrChaos App
4. add GrChaos Module Class, Example
5. add Module Class full classname to projectName-lib/src/main/resources/application.conf
6. in IDEA add a run configure: mainClass=me.chaopeng.grchaos.application.GrChaosApplicationMain in lib module
7. run gradle distZip to build the project. application.conf is not include in the build, you can use program param to define a different configure in production

Here is a sample project to show how to build a howswapable webservice.

GrChaos App Project layout

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├── build.gradle # root build script
├── libs.gradle # libraries
├── settings.gradle # subproject define
├── projectName-app # reloadable sources, project depends on projectName-lib
└── projectName-lib # not reloadable sources