I have used Jboss for a long time, but recently we've removed our dependencies on a full blown J2EE container so that we can run in Tomcat. I am trying to modify my development environment to support our standard workflow, but I can't figure out how to get Tomcat to run a specific application as opposed to every application under the webapps directory. I've done a lot of searching, I'm beginning to think that Tomcat does not support this type of operation, but I wanted to verify that before I rethink our process.
So IF Tomcat worked just like Jboss then this is how it WOULD work. I have two versions of my application, compiled and ready to run. They are in the following directories: C:\apache-tomcat-6\webapps\MyApp_V1 C:\apache-tomcat-6\webapps\MyApp_V2 When I want to start up MyApp_V1, I would pass that name into the startup.bat or catalina.bat. In my Jboss deployments I simply start Jboss using 'run -c MyApp_V1'. Our application's start up time is not insignificant, so starting both apps is a very bad thing, especially since I'll probably have more than two versions. Obviously, I could copy MyApp_Vx in and out of the webapps directory as needed, but this type of operation can confuse my IDE, so I'd like to avoid it. I am running on Windows XP and the tomcat version is 6.0.29. Thanks in advance for the assistance.
