Tomcat - starting webapps in a specific order

Question

I know that Tomcat and the Servlet spec do not support starting webapps in a particular order.

However, this seems to me like a common use case, and I\'m wondering i

Answer 1

We have the same problem and to solve it we're relying on the fact (slippery, I know) that applications are started in the order they are defined in /conf/server.xml.

This of course has a disadvantage of hardcoding apps in the server.xml but we can live with it.