web application Restart regarding...

[Jack Daniel]

Hi everybody,

well, i am using websphere app server 5.1(WAS 5.1).
My question is, ok sometimes, i make some changes in a web application on my development server, using WDSC 5.1

when it comes to making changes on the Production server, i come across 2 options:

(1) Sometimes, i follow the "Hot Deployment", where i do not need to stop and then start the web-application. This is smooth

(2) But sometimes, what i do is, i stop the application, install the new EAR file, and then start the application later; here there is so amount of time when the web application is not running and if any request comes, it throws a HTTP 404 not found error; I know to fix this, there is some kind of a set-up or configuration that has to be done, but i do not know how??

It would be great if anybody can give me some idea, on how this is done.
There is definitely some way, probably when they make a call to the application, show a page, saying Application under Maintainence or something like that.

Thanks a lot for your help & ideas..

[Ben Souther]

prashant,

You might want to move this thread to the IBM/Websphere forum.
You'll probably get better help there.

-Ben