New to JRebel here. Is there anyway to run JRebel deployment without Maven? I could run using Ant build.xml to deploy into the webapps folder of Jetty but then it has to be manually trigger.
Any suggestions?
Of course. JRebel doesn't depend on Maven. What you need is to make sure that rebel.xml configuration file is deployed with the application - the JRebel will be able to locate the resources (i.e. classes and static HTML/JS/CSS files).
Make sure that rebel.xml ends up in WEB-INF/classes of the WAR package. Then you'd just compile only the changed classes with your IDE and JRebel will make the updates.