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Currently Tomcat supports classes reloading, but from only single web-project. Large projects could consist of several sub-projects - which means we have several /classes folders on different locations, which are belong to different locations. Finally, when building war, these subprojects form jar files in web-inf/lib. But during development it is very unneficient to build/redeploy whole project every time (takes about 10 min). It will be very convinient if Netbeans will support multiple class locations (and maybe web-resources also) and handle class reloading, like Sysdeo tomcat plugin for Eclipse does. We tried to use DevLoader which is coming with SysDeo plugin, and we got a class loading from different locations, but we haven't got classes RE-loading when compiling them from Netbeans. Only main project classes are reloaded, but not subprojects. We guess that IDE should inform Tomcat that classes in other loactions were changed.