Hi everyone, I'm using Tomcat's parallel deployment feature, and I wonder whether there's a way to request a specific version of my webapp.
Let's say I have a WAR named myapp##001.war deployed on my server and just deployed a new WAR myapp##002.war. Requests to http:/myserver/myapp/.. are transparently mapped by Tomcat to version 001 for existing sessions and to version 002 for new sessions. Is there a way to explicitly request version 001, like http://myserver/myapp##001/...? That specific syntax obviously doesn't work, otherwise I wouldn't be asking :) BTW: The reason I'm asking is because that transparent shift from one app release to the next doesn't play along well with any caches (browser, caching proxies, CDNs etc.): When a shift to the next app release occurs, I generally need the client browsers to fetch a fresh copy of all files belonging to that release. And the only way to force them to do that is by having them use a different URL than for the old app release files.. So my idea is to have the browser make an initial request to http://myserver/myapp/redir.do, when launching the app, which instantaneously redirects to the actual release-specifc URL http://myserver/myapp##00x/... , thereby having the browser use release-specific URLs for all application files. Any help is appreciated. Thanks - Hartmut
