Wicket Auto Reloading Classes

web.xml

<filter>
<filter-name>wicket</filter-name>
<filter-class>ghost.wicket.apps.MyReloadingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>applicationClassName</param-name>
<param-value>ghost.wicket.apps.MyWebApplication</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

MyReloadingFilter

public class MyReloadingFilter extends ReloadingWicketFilter
{
static
{
ReloadingClassLoader.includePattern(“ghost.wicket.*”);
ReloadingClassLoader.excludePattern(“ghost.wicket.bo.*”);
ReloadingClassLoader.excludePattern(“ghost.wicket.apps.MyWebSession”);
}
}

Simply replace your wicket filter with your custom filter to enable wicket automatically reload your class files on the fly, so that you no need to restart server to update your changes to your class file.