THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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While the above statement is certainly true, there is a potential "workaround":
If you actually have two (or more) apps depending on each other, you may decided decide to start multiple services in you server.xml:
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I.e. you split the regular "/webapps" directory into "/webapp21webapps1" and "/webapps2", whereas everything in the former is deployed and started before the later. The drawback is that you need separate ports for the services.
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