thanks for the insights and suggestions chuck! On 5/11/05, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Annie Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: question about load-on-startup in web.xml > > > > any one know if there's a way to make webappY get installed before > > webappX? > > As far as I can tell, the intent of the JSP and servlet specs is for web > applications to be independent of both the container and each other. > Since Tomcat is the reference implementation for the spec, the > developers seem to avoid introducing many Tomcat-unique features that > would reduce application portability. The load-on-startup tag is part > of the servlet spec, defined to control instantiation of servlets within > an app, not across apps. > > If you want to synchronize application deployment, I think you're going > to have to do that within the app itself, possibly with context > listeners to minimize inter-app dependencies. You'd probably want to > use reflection to make references to whatever class or object you > synchronize on, otherwise you're going to have problems independently > updating the apps without taking Tomcat down. Another option, of > course, is to extend the existing deployOnStartup mechanism to do what > you want. After all, this is open-source. > > Or maybe there's some neat trick I haven't found yet. > > > what determines the install order? > > These references only partially answer the question: > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/deployer-howto.html#Depl > oying%20on%20Tomcat%20startup > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html#Automat > ic%20Application%20Deployment > > My somewhat less than rigorous experimentation seems to indicate that > apps are deployed serially, not in parallel, but I haven't tried to > figure out what determines the order. > > - Chuck > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > and its attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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