Hi Peter,
From the above snippet it seems you are trying to use a relative path, however this does not work in the rebel.xml. One option is to prepend the maven property ${project.baseDir} to “src/main/webapp”.
However this should not be needed at all as the default configuration generates a classpath element pointing to “target/classes” and a web element pointing to “/src/main/webapp” for modules packaged as war. For jar modules “src/main/webapp” is not used.
If you are still unable to reload your jsp-s, can you send your jrebel.log to support@zeroturnaround.com? It will help us get a better overview of your project structure and see why the files aren’t reloading. The best way to do this is via NetBeans -> Help -> JRebel -> Submit a Support ticket
In the ticket comments you can reference this post.