Multiple instances of same J2EE app running simulateneously

[emcgreal]

I have a J2EE app that can be customized for individual customers. The app itself is always the same except each one has a different database.
I want to be able to deploy multiple instances with just different context-root fro each instance and a different DB - is that possible in JBoss? In WebLogic they have the concept of Domains - can I do something similar in JBoss?

I could of course hadle this all in one app but I think that defeats the purpose of having an App server

[agentblueuk]

i'de like to do something similar, but in my case i want to have multiple instances of the same application as we a providing our product as a hosted solution and having multiple jboss instances all on their own ip address would seam rather wasteful

[lafr]

Yes it is possible.
You'll have to use scoped classloading which is the default for version 404 AFAIK.
Look at the Wikis for this topic.

For the web-modules in aplication.xml we use this:

<module>
 <web>
 <web-uri>ws-sales.war</web-uri>
 <context-root>/mbi-ws/@NAME@/sales</context-root>
 </web>
 </module>

@NAME@ is replaced with a concrete name like "prod" or "test" on packaging/deployment.