Eric - One could argue what's the true benefit here though? Production shouldn't be restarted or unavailable except during an outage, whether it's planned or unplanned, right?
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Bouer [mailto:ericbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:46 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: Display a static page while application loading. Thanks you Francis but I can't use a apache frontend. I'm looking for a solution in tomcat itself, And I guess it's a common request since many applications have long startup times and this can be very annoying to get a blank page in production. Francis Galiegue-4 wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:45, Eric Bouer <ericbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello list. >> I'm using tomcat for a J2EE application that uses Spring/Hibernate/JSF. >> The spring container and hibernate bootstrap are slow and the users >> get a blank page or no response from tomcat while the application starts. >> In order to avoid that I was thinking about some static page that can >> be served by a different thread but the problem is that there are >> muiltiple wars and I wish to have a simple solution. >> >> I'd like to know if Tomcat already provides a solution for this >> problem or if it is a planned feature request (couldn't find any) Or >> is there another way to solve this issue? >> Thanks. >> > > With Tomcat alone, no idea. I do that with Apache in front of Tomcat, > but this requires that Tomcat be set up in a particular way. > > Here is what happens here when a webapp is started: > > * Apache is configured to display a static page for the corresponding > server name and path; > * I use Tomcat's manager webapp to deploy the new context; > * on success, Apache is reconfigured to forward requests and its > configuration reloaded. > > For this, Tomcat is started with only the manager webapp, and only in > text mode from localhost. Contexts are then deployed and undeployed on > demand. One problem with Tomcat is that the bundled startup scripts > will return _before_ Tomcat is fully bootstrapped, which is why I have > to use my own. This has been discussed at length a few months ago, and > is why I have my current setup. It is the only way for me to have the > behavior I seek. > > -- > Francis Galiegue > ONE2TEAM > Ingénieur système > Mob : +33 (0) 683 877 875 > Tel : +33 (0) 178 945 552 > f...@one2team.com > 40 avenue Raymond Poincaré > 75116 Paris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Display-a-static-page-while-application-loading.-tp32493013p32494281.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
