Quarkus: Is there a way to exclude classes from automatic reload/recompile in the dev mode?

Question

When using JavaLite ActiveJDBC with Quarkus, this exception is generated:

org.javalite.activejdbc.InitException: you are trying to work with models, but no models are found. Maybe you have no models in project, or you did not instrument the models.

This happens because ActiveJDBC uses instrumentation after the compilation. The JavaLite instrumentation manipulates the class bytecode necessary for ActiveJDBC to function. This is done in a post-compile step before the app starts.

However, Quarkus reloads all classes from the source code in dev mode and hence kills the JavaLite bytecode instrumentation.

Is there a way to tell Quarkus to not reload/recompile certain classes?

Answer 1

This question moved to Quarkus issues on Github here: https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/35418