Perhaps consider using the tomcat event listeners that trigger when a context is up
Sharon -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:01 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: WAR unzipping not catched Stefan Siegel wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question concerning Tomcats WAR deployment behavior: > > I have a web application which allows me to upload WAR files to the server > via a web form. > > I get feedback from Tomcat once the upload is finished. I then put the > file in Tomcats "webapps" folder. Tomcat now starts unzipping the package. > How can I manage to get a notification from Tomcat indicating me that the > application is ready to be switched to? > If I had the same problem, and I did not want to start wading through the Tomcat Manager application code (*), then what I would do would be to have my application issue a simple HTTP request to this application, and check what comes back. And if it was not the first page of the application (**), then I'd wait and retry. But there are probably other ways to do this. (*) which is available and, some say, surprisingly easy to understand (**) which, considering I wrote it, could contain some unique string easy to detect --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org