Is there a way to enforce a deployment order in tomcat6?

Question

I have 3 wars in my webapp folder. Two of them are built on services of the third one. I\'m in a testing environment, i.e. I don\'t have control over their architectures, so

Answer 1

Apologies for cross posting (Tomcat - starting webapps in a specific order), but I thought it was relevant here too:

You can define mulitple services in your server.xml, which run on different ports. The services are started sequentially according to the order they appear in the server.xml. This means that you can have - for example - a configuration service running in the first service and then the apps that depend on it in the second (I use the default Catalina one for the rest of them...)

You can see more info here: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Miscellaneous#Q27

And this is the service that I include before the Catalina Service:

As you can see, I use docbase rather than appBase, but you should be able t configure a different appBase if you prefer...

NB it's important to change the name of both the service and the engine.

HTH