Yeah but high availability/scaling solutions or a dynamic nature of application where new features are added frequently are common. Anyway if I could get some information on tomcat internal bootstap I would write something to handle that and contribute it back.
CRANFORD, CHRIS wrote: > > Eric - > > One could argue what's the true benefit here though? Production shouldn't > be restarted or unavailable except during an outage, whether it's planned > or unplanned, right? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Bouer [mailto:ericbo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:46 AM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Display a static page while application loading. > > > Thanks you Francis but I can't use a apache frontend. > I'm looking for a solution in tomcat itself, And I guess it's a common > request since many applications have long startup times and this can be > very annoying to get a blank page in production. > > > > Francis Galiegue-4 wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:45, Eric Bouer <ericbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello list. >>> I'm using tomcat for a J2EE application that uses Spring/Hibernate/JSF. >>> The spring container and hibernate bootstrap are slow and the users >>> get a blank page or no response from tomcat while the application >>> starts. >>> In order to avoid that I was thinking about some static page that can >>> be served by a different thread but the problem is that there are >>> muiltiple wars and I wish to have a simple solution. >>> >>> I'd like to know if Tomcat already provides a solution for this >>> problem or if it is a planned feature request (couldn't find any) Or >>> is there another way to solve this issue? >>> Thanks. >>> >> >> With Tomcat alone, no idea. I do that with Apache in front of Tomcat, >> but this requires that Tomcat be set up in a particular way. >> >> Here is what happens here when a webapp is started: >> >> * Apache is configured to display a static page for the corresponding >> server name and path; >> * I use Tomcat's manager webapp to deploy the new context; >> * on success, Apache is reconfigured to forward requests and its >> configuration reloaded. >> >> For this, Tomcat is started with only the manager webapp, and only in >> text mode from localhost. Contexts are then deployed and undeployed on >> demand. One problem with Tomcat is that the bundled startup scripts >> will return _before_ Tomcat is fully bootstrapped, which is why I have >> to use my own. This has been discussed at length a few months ago, and >> is why I have my current setup. It is the only way for me to have the >> behavior I seek. >> >> -- >> Francis Galiegue >> ONE2TEAM >> Ingénieur système >> Mob : +33 (0) 683 877 875 >> Tel : +33 (0) 178 945 552 >> f...@one2team.com >> 40 avenue Raymond Poincaré >> 75116 Paris >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Display-a-static-page-while-application-loading.-tp32493013p32494281.html > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Display-a-static-page-while-application-loading.-tp32493013p32495720.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
