Gabe, Could you provide a little more detail on this? Unfortunately I am no tomcat expert.
How would running two JVM's help? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Gabe Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:21 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Webapp load order tomcat 4 vs tomcat 5 Sean, From your description, it seems that communication between the 2 apps is done over the wire. If that is the case, why not run each under a separate JVM/Application Server to avoid the class loading conflict. King, Sean wrote: > Without giving away too much information... > > I am working on an integration between the application that I develop > and a third party application. A requirement of the integration is > that my app receive unsolicited notifications from the third party app > relating to status changes. This is achieved via a Muse webservice. > The third party developers have provided my with all of the required > Muse "stuff" in a war file. The war file contains a class that > registers and maintains connections between my app and the other. > > So, to cut a long story short, my app needs to register with the > supplied web app for the integration to work. > > This seems to work seamlessly with tomcat5 and this methodology is > what we are planning to go into production with. > > Now it sounds like a bad idea!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Crowther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:36 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Webapp load order tomcat 4 vs tomcat 5 > > >> From: King, Sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For the application to run >> correctly, app2 must be deployed and start before app1. Using tomcat >> 5 >> > > >> this does not seem to be a problem. When I start tomcat, app2 is >> deployed and then app1 starts and is able to access jars in app2. I >> am >> > > >> hoping that this start order is not just pure chance!! >> > > It is, indeed, pure chance. > > >> I am now trying to port the application back to tomcat 4. >> Unfortunately >> I am consistently seeing that app1 starts first and then app2 is >> deployed from the war. Since app1 depends on app2 this is a major >> problem. >> >> Is there any way in tomcat 4 to force the war file to be deployed >> first? >> > > Hack the Tomcat source and recompile :-). > > More seriously, no, you can't rely on the startup order of webapps. > As I recall, you can't even assume that only one will be started at > one time (I'm sure the more experienced list members will correct me > if the spec disallows this). You can try playing around with > filenames until the order magically reverses, or you can amend the > apps so that app1 doesn't need to access jars in app2 (which is, > anyway, a bit unpleasant). > > Can you give us more information about why app1 needs app2 to start > first? There may well be ways round the problem. > > - Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Regards Gabe Wong Private JVM JAVA Hosting Automation http://www.ngasi.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
