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How to disable JRebel "splash" screen / banner at startup

Are there any options/flags I can pass to JRebel at start up to circumvent the splash screen displayed when JRebel starts up? It's causing a lot of mental noise by taking up a lot of space, and is not providing any useful information.

2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: #############################################################
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  JRebel 5.6.0 (201406201610)
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  (c) Copyright ZeroTurnaround OU, Estonia, Tartu.
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  Over the last 30 days JRebel prevented 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  at least 619 redeploys/restarts saving you about 25.1 hours.
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  Over the last 124 days JRebel prevented
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  at least 1366 redeploys/restarts saving you about 55.4 hours.
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel: 
2014-07-18 16:05:41 JRebel:  This product is licensed to Erik Allik
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I don't know how I would go about inspecting the options via jrebel.jar, nor was I able to google up anything.

The following documentation page does not provide any help either: http://manuals.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/standalone/config.html.

Solution

  • Edited, the flag to minimize the banner is available in JRebel 5.6.4-SNAPSHOT: rebel.log.minimize_banner=true

    Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a special flag that disables only the banner part, but there is an option to disable all messages to stdout.

    3 Options:

    1. JVM flag -Drebel.log.stdout=false
    2. Write it to {user.home}/.jrebel/jrebel.properties as rebel.log.stdout=false
    3. Toggle it from the IDE plugin settings

    Actually it makes sense to make the banner optional, so I'll file a feature request.