Re: similar applications - tomcat deployment

2007-11-27 Thread Leonidas Papadakis
ok so at the end of the day you are in favor of one instance of tomcat per application... I think i will adapt this solution since although you can restart an application from tomcat's manager, i have the feeling that a "corrupted" jvm will not "clear" correctly... Regarding the virtual hos

Re: similar applications - tomcat deployment

2007-11-27 Thread Gary Affonso
Leonidas Papadakis wrote: Also if apart from the dependency libraries, if you gather all your classes in a jar file isn't it easier to overwrite one file so that all apps will receive the update at once ? In our case we rarely want each instance to be updated at the same time. We're typical

Re: similar applications - tomcat deployment

2007-11-27 Thread Leonidas Papadakis
Dear Gary, thanks for your answer. Actually my main concern is memory usage. I recently had java.lang.OutOfMemory issues when i had in total 7 similar apps. Unfortunately i had java 1.4.2. + tomcat 5.0.28 that made difficult to run a profiler. I switched to java 6 + tomcat 5.5.25 and the syst

Re: similar applications - tomcat deployment

2007-11-27 Thread Gary Affonso
Leonidas Papadakis wrote: Greetings to all, i have the following scenario. I want to deploy 5 apps that have exactly the same classes (in jars). Only db access, static files and property files change. In short all WEB-INF/lib jar files are the same. So the question is : option1) If i put the