Yeah JRebel 5 is there.
If you work with Eclipse the first thing you notice is the improved integration. You no longer manually have to generate the rebel.xml file. Activating the rebel on a project only requires 1 click, saving you more time to code. Not that much more but it’s much more convenient and easier to deploy.
Also the remote and livedeploy integration seems really improved. I regret that I can’t really use it at the moment to test it out. At my current employer they stick to old school building.
I even have trouble to convince the developers to try out JRebel, 2 tried it, then got back to waiting on deployments and restarts don’t know why. Although it’s currently saving me between 11 to 15h each 30 days. Maybe I’m more nerd/geek than them, way more.
Every developer should give it a try!