Achieve IntelliJ Idea to build and re-run a Spark Java project on file edit/update

Question

I'd like to automate a process. I'm using Spark Java framework and after build and run the first time, I'd like IntelliJ Idea to watch file changes, stop, build and run the Spark Java application with the latest edits.

I know that there is the File-Watchers plugin, although I'm not able to configure it correctly.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

As kindly suggested in this thread by Serge Baranov, it seems that a special InteeliJ Idea run configuration would be needed to support this kind of feature.

I made a feature request over at JetBrains: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-196700

Stay tuned