I'm trying to use the SuiteRunner as a solution which works from inside an IDE (IntelliJ) to be precise. I've been able to get the Runner working and picking up a simple recipie and can add to it from inside the GUI viewer.
My problem is that even when I specify the runpath and insist that it must be reloadable, the runner does not reload my classes. I've set the runpath to be my compiler output directory.
Is this: 1. a known bug with the class loader, or 2. a error in my specification of the runpath in terms of the build/classes directory, or 3. A limitation that classes directory (runpath) can not exist on the JVM's classpath.
I ran into a similar problem using Eclipse (actually IBM ASTK 5.1); I was able to get classes to reload by removing them from my classpath so that they were only specified in the runpath. See my 10/28/05 post for more details (I didn't notice this post until after I'd already posted):