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Tomcat Performance Tuning Tips

jasonb on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

I often get questions about how to tune Tomcat for better performance.  It is usually best to answer this only after first spending some time understanding the installation of Tomcat, the web site’s traffic level, and the web applications that it runs.  But, there are some general performance tips that apply regardless of these important [...]

Don’t You Have a Blog?

jasonb on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Every so often, I would be answering some questions about Tomcat, and the person I’m speaking with would ask “where’s your blog?” or “do you have a blog somewhere?”  I have always cringed at that question because I didn’t have one — until now.  Mainly I had a few clever excuses for not putting time [...]

General purpose monitoring vs. deep diagnostics – choosing the right tool

Sateesh Narahari on Monday, September 14, 2009

The promise of a monitoring solution that will pinpoint application problems and give you exact steps to fix the problem has remained a dream. In addition, monitoring systems have become notorious for being expensive and difficult to maintain. Diagnosing application performance problems requires application-specific diagnostic information that general-purpose monitoring tools often do not provide. While [...]

Whitepaper: Migrating from WebLogic to Tomcat

Community on Monday, September 14, 2009

While it has been commonplace (and well documented) for IT organizations to migrate Java EE applications initially developed on Apache Tomcat upward to commercial Java application servers, such as Oracle’s WebLogic, in recent years the trend has been reversing. There are a number of compelling reasons for creating new web applications using today’s deployment architectures [...]

Upcoming webinar and live demo: Intro to MuleSoft Tcat Server

Community on Friday, September 11, 2009

Finally, a way to develop and deploy Tomcat applications with ease! Are you developing applications on Apache Tomcat, or are you a Tomcat administrator? Have you been looking for ways to reduce tedious manual work as you deploy and manage your Tomcat applications, or are you seeking better visibility into your application’s performance metrics and [...]

Creating a New Kind of Cat

Ken Yagen on Thursday, September 10, 2009

Launching Tcat Server was a new type of challenge for MuleSoft. How do we take something that everyone knows — Apache Tomcat – and differentiate it with the enterprise features that our customers were asking for? We started with a set of principles that would help us deliver this value. These included:

“Dead-simple” integration for web app development

Ken Yagen on Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009 is coming up quickly. It will be held on October 3rd and 4th at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA. I attended last year and found the talks to be very informative and the attendees really engaged. It’s a great format, open to anyone and free to anyone who pre-registers. [...]

Supporting Apache Tomcat and MuleSoft Tcat Server

ed.dubrawski on Wednesday, September 9, 2009

With the launch of MuleSoft Tcat Server, the MuleSoft support team has been working hard to ensure that we can deliver the same world-class support for Apache Tomcat and Tcat Server that we offer for Mule ESB.

Pricing for MuleSoft Tcat Server published

mahau.ma on Monday, September 7, 2009

We’ve published pricing for MuleSoft Tcat Server! We have had so much early interest and demand in our new web application server, based on Apache Tomcat, that we decided to publish our subscription pricing ahead of schedule. MuleSoft Tcat server is free to use in development and pre-production environments. Production subscriptions, which include unlimited support [...]

So, how is MuleSoft Tcat Server different from other ‘enterprise Tomcat’ offerings?

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, September 4, 2009

One of the joys of launching a new product is that you get to watch near real-time feedback on your product releases on twitter, blogosphere and other social media sites. Our launch of MuleSoft Tcat Server was no different – people are tweeting and commenting on blogs. In addition to the social media, we also [...]