diff --git a/docker-compose-dev.yml b/docker-compose-dev.yml
index 10fe62ff6df..6eab84092ed 100644
--- a/docker-compose-dev.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-dev.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - ./docker-dev-volumes/app/data:/dv
       - ./docker-dev-volumes/app/secrets:/secrets
+      # Uncomment to map the glassfish applications folder so that we can update webapp resources using scripts/intellij/cpwebapp.sh
+      # - ./docker-dev-volumes/glassfish/applications:/opt/payara/appserver/glassfish/domains/domain1/applications
       # Uncomment for changes to xhtml to be deployed immediately (if supported your IDE or toolchain).
       # Replace 6.0 with the current version.
       # - ./target/dataverse-6.0:/opt/payara/deployments/dataverse
diff --git a/scripts/intellij/cpwebapp.sh b/scripts/intellij/cpwebapp.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..6ecad367048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/intellij/cpwebapp.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# cpwebapp <project dir> <file in webapp>
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+# Add a File watcher by importing watchers.xml into IntelliJ IDEA, and let it do the copying whenever you save a
+# file under webapp.
+#
+#     https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-tools-file-watchers.html
+#
+# Alternatively, you can add an External tool and trigger via menu or shortcut to do the copying manually:
+#
+#     https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-third-party-tools.html
+#
+
+PROJECT_DIR=$1
+FILE_TO_COPY=$2
+RELATIVE_PATH="${FILE_TO_COPY#$PROJECT_DIR/}"
+
+# Check if RELATIVE_PATH starts with 'src/main/webapp', otherwise ignore
+if [[ $RELATIVE_PATH == src/main/webapp* ]]; then
+    # Get current version. Any other way to do this? A simple VERSION file would help.
+    VERSION=`perl -ne 'print $1 if /<revision>(.*?)<\/revision>/' ./modules/dataverse-parent/pom.xml`
+    RELATIVE_PATH_WITHOUT_WEBAPP="${RELATIVE_PATH#src/main/webapp/}"
+    TARGET_DIR=./docker-dev-volumes/glassfish/applications/dataverse-$VERSION
+    TARGET_PATH="${TARGET_DIR}/${RELATIVE_PATH_WITHOUT_WEBAPP}"
+
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TARGET_PATH")"
+    cp "$FILE_TO_COPY" "$TARGET_PATH"
+
+    echo "File $FILE_TO_COPY copied to $TARGET_PATH"
+fi
diff --git a/scripts/intellij/watchers.xml b/scripts/intellij/watchers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e118fea558f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/intellij/watchers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<TaskOptions>
+  <TaskOptions>
+    <option name="arguments" value="$ProjectFileDir$ $FilePath$" />
+    <option name="checkSyntaxErrors" value="false" />
+    <option name="description" />
+    <option name="exitCodeBehavior" value="ERROR" />
+    <option name="fileExtension" value="*" />
+    <option name="immediateSync" value="false" />
+    <option name="name" value="Dataverse webapp file copy on save" />
+    <option name="output" value="" />
+    <option name="outputFilters">
+      <array />
+    </option>
+    <option name="outputFromStdout" value="false" />
+    <option name="program" value="$ProjectFileDir$/scripts/intellij/cpwebapp.sh" />
+    <option name="runOnExternalChanges" value="true" />
+    <option name="scopeName" value="Current File" />
+    <option name="trackOnlyRoot" value="false" />
+    <option name="workingDir" value="$ProjectFileDir$" />
+    <envs />
+  </TaskOptions>
+</TaskOptions>
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