Delay deployment in tomcat7-maven-plugin

Question

Does the tomcat7-maven-plugin depoy all war-files simultaneously?

Is there a way to configure the plugin to delay the deployment of a war to occur after another war has started?

I have configured the tomcat7-maven-plugin to deploy several war-files. ArtifactB has a runtime dependency to artifactA which is resolved when it is starts up. It seems that the tomcat7-maven-plugin deploys all wars simultaneously, causing artifactB to hang and and it will not recover even after artifactA is up and runnig.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <path>/</path>
        <port>8080</port>
        <addWarDependenciesInClassloader>true</addWarDependenciesInClassloader>
        <warSourceDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/</warSourceDirectory>
        <webapps>
            <webapp>
                <groupId>the.groupId</groupId>
                <artifactId>artifactA</artifactId>
                <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                <type>war</type>
                <asWebapp>true</asWebapp>
            </webapp>
            <webapp>
                <groupId>the.groupId</groupId>
                <artifactId>artifactB</artifactId>
                <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                <type>war</type>
                <asWebapp>true</asWebapp>
            </webapp>
        </webapps>
    </configuration>
</plugin>