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Mark,

On 8/29/2011 9:37 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 29/08/2011 04:15, Sammy MT Lau wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I've read some articles regarding to the parallel deployment of
>> tomcat 7. From what I've read, enabling parallel deployment
>> requires the enablement of tomcat session as well. However, the
>> API server and client I'm working with don't do any session
>> management using the tomcat session. Therefore, I've the tomcat
>> session disabled. So, what's the behaviour of parallel deployment
>> when I just turned on the tomcat session without having the 
>> client ever do anything with the session id in url or cookie. In
>> that case, all of the requests coming to the tomcat doesn't have
>> any session info. I'm going to do some tests but if someone on
>> the list could shed me some light on this would be highly
>> appreciated.
> 
> Requests will always go to the latest version of the web
> application. In this scenario, there is little benefit to using
> parallel deployment.

I still see a use for parallel deployment: zero down-time. Webapp
redeployment isn't instantaneous, especially if the webapp itself has
a non-trivial startup time. Parallel deployment allows more seamless
upgrades.

- -chris
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