Hi Christopher, > > Ouch. Why do you delete the application before you stop > Tomcat? I would stop Tomcat and then delete the files.
We delete the war file before stopping tomcat to give Tomcat a chance to auto-undeploy the application automatically. I just read last night that auto-deploy/undeploy carries a performance impact, is the performance impact really that significant just for monitoring a directory? > > rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost/application-1.1 > > rm -rf > /usr/share/tomcat5/conf/Catalina/localhost/application-1.1.xml > > rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/application-1.1 > > cp /home/admin/application-1.1.war /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps > > /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start > > How does this even work? The first line of the script deletes > /home/admin/application-1.1.war and the second-to-last line > tries to copy it back. Shouldn't the file not even exist? The problem as I am made to understand from the developers is that the context name is dependant on the application name and that specifically specifying a context name does not do the trick. I have not tested this myself yet, but plan to do so. Even though the file name in the script are the same it is a different file or different version at least of the same application. > > ant has an optional task to allow you to (re-)deploy WAR > files to a running Tomcat instance. This capability is > probably inherited by Maven, which is how you heard about it. > Maven is not required, though, so if you aren't using Maven, > you don't have to. > > Are your servers sharing any remote-mounted filesystems over > NFS or anything like that? I believe that Tomcat expands > deployed WAR files to its local work directory, so you could > potentially share WAR files over a network-mounted disk. > Then, simply replace the WAR file on the network and all 60 > of your Tomcat instances will auto-re-deploy if configured to > do so. (I wouldn't recommend this for production, but that's > just my own personal bias). An interesting idea... How would you make your tomcat unavailable during the re-deployement of a new application? Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
