MBeans and Lifecycle

2008-06-06 Thread Stront
Is it possible to identify what stage in it's Lifecycle (org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle) Catalina is in using MBeans? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MBeans-and-Lifecycle-tp17692655p17692655.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Load Balnce and failover for Tomcat

2008-05-15 Thread Stront
Didn't you say you could already do this? Yes, but it is a little hacky. MBeans seem a more approiate way to go and wanted to know if they could be used for this. You need to write a service that knows that all webapps have started, or have your load balancer test each one before reporting

Re: Load Balnce and failover for Tomcat

2008-05-14 Thread Stront
to your webapps. So, the answer will differ for each webapps and the resource to ask will differ as well. Best of luck. Regards, Dave On May 13, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Stront wrote: From: Stront [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. That all of the webapps are running. That's webapp

Load Balnce and failover for Tomcat

2008-05-13 Thread Stront
I need to load balance (but not cluster) a collection of Tomcats. We have existing load balancers/failover that can probe with an HTTP requests to see if a service is up. However out Tomcats have a number of webapps on and the start-up/shotdown can take quite a few minutes, so the failover isn't

RE: Load Balnce and failover for Tomcat

2008-05-13 Thread Stront
From: Stront [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. That all of the webapps are running. That's webapp-dependent, surely? Tomcat can't determine all the ways in which your application can fail. But it can tell if the app has started; Tomcat's manager displays a list of apps and whether it is running