Smooth redeployment of WAR in production?

Question

I was wondering if there is a \'smooth way\' of redeploying a Java WAR to a production server (no cluster, no OSGi)?

All I can come up with is stop server, update file,

Answer 1

Usually, mv old.war new.war and let the AS take it from there, although with very busy 24/7 services, I imagine this wouldn't be an option.