On May 28, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > At $work, we have an automated build system that twice-daily compiles our > application and deploys it to the Tomcat servers in our QA environment. It > uses the Tomcat manager web service (and the Tomcat Ant tasks) to manage this > behavior. More precisely, it first builds the application, then undeploys the > old application, then shuts down Tomcat, then runs database upgrades against > the QA database, then starts Tomcat back up, and then finally deploys the > application. > > We've been having a problem with random FileNotFoundExceptions whenever the > Ant task tries to deploy the WAR file using the Tomcat manager web service, > and we recently figured out what's going on. If the only application that's > running on Tomcat is our application, we don't have any problems. However, if > there are other applications, sometimes those applications start before the > manager application starts. Sometimes those applications take /several > minutes/ to start before the manager starts. However, the order they appear > in appears to be random. We can start Tomcat and immediately go to the > manager, then shut down Tomcat, start it back up with the same application, > and it suddenly be 2-3 minutes before the manager is available. > > The FileNotFoundExceptions in our Ant build happen when the Ant task > successfully contacts Tomcat but Tomcat returns a 404 for the manager because > that application hasn't started yet. That's unpleasant. > > So, is there a way to make the manager application or applications always be > the first ones loaded? We really need the Tomcat-supplied manager > applications to start first so that we can consistently automatically deploy > our applications. > > Nick
Oh, and in the interest of completeness, we're currently using Java 7u21 and Tomcat 7.0.33. Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
