Is there a way to enforce a deployment order in tomcat6?

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I have 3 wars in my webapp folder. Two of them are built on services of the third one. I'm in a testing environment, i.e. I don't have control over their architectures, so I'm no able to change a thing. So...

Question: Is there a way to enforce a deployment order in tomcat?

I've ran into one question here in stackoverflow, but there's no solution.

Well, actually the guy suggests that changing the name of the webapps to an alphabetical order would help. However, I'm not willing to do that everytime I need to test those and different wars.

I'm positive that there's a way of doing that configuring one of the tomcat conf .xml files. I just don't know which one.