Wordpress or Joomla , they work like this:
/ p>
You download a zip and unzip the web server directory (example apache), access the context URL (eg link ), at that time the application checks if there is a directory with the name " install ", if it exists it redirects the user to that application ( install wizard that helps the user configure BD (among other things), in the end it renames this directory "install" and redirects the user to the initial context (application already configured).
Has anyone done anything similar in Java?
To this day, my applications always depend on the configuration of the DB to go up in tomcat , that is, if the DB is neither configured nor up, in that case I imagine that the application could not require BD in the start .