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

I wrote a bash script that takes a few parameters and rsyncs the file between servers. Speeds up rsync transfer a lot for larger archives:

https://gist.github.com/3985742