Re: [Q] Restart required?

From: Silvain Piree (jobs_at_refactive.com)
Date: 10/11/03 

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:44:41 +0200

> It is not required - Tomcat has a management application that
> can be used to stop, start, remove and deploy web applications
> without restarting the server.

So, it's not the server that needs to be restarted, but the
running web application that is restarted. I understand.

But what if that application is handling a user session at that
moment? Will that user session be aborted? For example,
if the user requests a page, will that request be aborted?
Or if the customer submits an order, will that process
be aborted?

In PHP I can replace a script that is part of the application
without impacting on the running web application. Any
subsequent user request will use the new script; any running
user request keeps using the old script until it is finished.

I would really like to switch to Java for server-side development
but this is one of the major issues that is holding me back.

Silvain