thedaddy110
24th October 2007 11:44 UTC

Checking when Apache has deployed .war file
Hi,

Does anyone know or a way to check if a war file has been deployed by apache, we tend to drop the war file into the apache directory and it automatically deploys it.

thanks

Lee

pospec
24th October 2007 13:05 UTC

${If} ${FileExists}? :weird:

thedaddy110
24th October 2007 14:13 UTC

That did occur to me but i was hoping there was a better way of finding out when it had finished, it takes on my machine about 45 minutes to deploy.

My problem is,

The installer i am creating deploys the war file but then i need to alter xml files with information from the user. I may have to just use if fileexists... :(

Lee

Originally posted by pospec
${If} ${FileExists}? :weird:

Kid Uncertainty
26th October 2007 15:17 UTC

Can you stop Tomcat (e.g. using a service management plugin for NSIS), then use an UnZip plugin to explode the warfile yourself, then make the modifications, then start Tomcat?

The above is what I do (But I have the luxury of being allowed to stop the Tomcat process or service)

WAR files are just zip files, so any unzip utility can work with them.

thedaddy110
2nd November 2007 11:07 UTC

Yes,

I could stop tomcat and unzip the file.

Do you by anychance have the code you wrote to do this?

Saves me doing it :)

Thanks

Lee