I ran into this problem at work, where we have a Spring boot Application and deploy the war exploded via a WebSphere. When I change some static files like the html or JS and try to hotswap the changes via the update resource option, IntelliJ stops the application and deploys it again. Now I was able to reproduce this problem at home but I still have no idea why this is happening.
I set up a new project with maven and added this example: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static
I downloaded the latest WebSphere and added the maven-war-plugin into my pom and finally deployed the whole thing. When I change one line of code in the html and try to update the resources which usually should not be a problem the server stops and redeploys the application.
I am using the latest IntelliJ version 2017.2.3 and Maven 3.5.
Does anybody else have this issue or is it something I am missing in my set up?
So I got a response. The whole thing is a bug and will be fixed some time next week. Here is the issue they opened up: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-178845