Best practices for deploying Java webapps with minimal downtime?

Question

When deploying a large Java webapp (>100 MB .war) I\'m currently use the following deployment process:

• The application .war file is expanded locally on the develop

Answer 1

As for the early context restarts. All containers have configuration options to disable auto-redeploy on class file or static resource changes. You probably can't disable auto redeploys on web.xml changes so this file is the last one to update. So if you disable to auto redeploy and update the web.xml as the last one you'll see the context restart after the whole update.