title: How to disable specific apps from starting during Tomcat startup?
body: <p>My company is preparing a new production box while the current one is running. I would like to proactively install applications in Tomcat container of the new production box but would like to keep them disabled (similar to the feature present in Websphere) - this is very important because some of the applications poll for the data from the database and starting an application would interfere with current production deployment. They would be enabled at the time of production switch-over. </p>
  
  <p>How would I accomplish this? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.</p>