Yeah we did the same as Christopher for our tomcat 4.1.30 deployment. Now we have recently moved to Jboss 4.0.1 and there _might_ be another option. I was told, but haven't verified, that you can specify to Jboss (or is it to the Tomcat 5.x web container underneath Jboss ?) which of the other apps you depend on being started before your app loads. Jboss then determines load order for the apps based upon the dependencies each app has. I'm not sure how much of this is Jboss and how much is Tomcat 5 though my source told me that he thought that this behaviour was controlled in the app's deployment descriptor file. So check the Tomcat 5.x and/or Jboss doco for app loading dependencies.
Warwick > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher W. Farnham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:26 PM > To: Slide Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: starting slide before other webapps > > > We had this problem and we redesigned our Slide dependent > application to > use lazy initialization. In other words, > the application only loaded Slide dependent code once the > first request > was made. This probably means you only > have to turn pre-initialization of your servlets off in your web.xml. > > Making your application work this way allows all of your > applications to > initialize themselves in any order before trying to access > each other via requests. > > As far as I know, there's no way to enforce initialization > order of web > applications in Tomcat, but I didn't try too hard as I knew > that the above solution would work for me. > > Christopher Farnham > Senior Consultant at Wrycan, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wrycan.com > > > > Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > >This might be a better question for the tomcat list, but anyway here > >goes: > > > >I have a web application that uses slide. This webapp has a > >load-on-startup servlet that depends on slide being up and running. > >Sometimes it works but sometimes it fails at the point where > it tries > >to contact slide. > > > >This is not proof, but it seems to suggest a strong possibility that > >tomcat (5.0x) is starting up webapps in an arbitrary order. > Is there a > >way to force tomcat to load slide first? > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
