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application briefly unavailable when using manager to reload

           Summary: application briefly unavailable when using manager to
                    reload
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.16
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Webapps:Manager
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: sgabriel@brainfuse.com


When reloading a web application in production. Tomcat reports that the 
application is unavailable for a brief period of time. the reason for 
reloading the application is the jsp pages are precompiled and the application 
reloadable property is set to false. So on every migration we are forced to 
reload the application which leads to the problem described above. 
When using reloadable propery in development this doesn't happen even after 
recompiling all class files. Some of the pages on the server are pretty 
complex pages that requires a lot of users input and when the application is 
unavailable all the user's work is simply lost and they have to start over 
again. 
there are no error messages in the log files and no complains, the application 
uses struts and the reloading is using the Ant tasks shipped with Tomcat. 

Please advice what is the best configuration, may be reloadable is not so bad 
after all. 
P.S. the application doesn't take this long to load we are talking about 
couple of seconds at the most.

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