Order in which applications are deployed

Hi,

It seems that when Tomcat deploys .WAR files it does then alphabetically. How do I change this?

I want my soap.war to deploy before my application.war as my application needs the soap features.

Cheers,
Adam

There is no way to control the order in which applications in Tomcat get deployed.
I tried once.

(Correction, there wasn't when I tried a couple years ago).

One workaround might be to put a context listener in the apps that depend on the SOAP server app. Have it ping that app every n seconds to see if it's running. Make the servlets in the app unavailable until after the SOAP server proves that it's up and running.