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Is your Tomcat Secure?

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Apache Tomcat is the perfect application server for deploying your web applications in production. In fact, it also happens to be the only Java application server that has hardening guidelines published by Center for Internet Security (CIS). CIS publishes hardening guidelines for widely used software to help enterprises protect their deployments. The very fact that [...]

Apache Releases Tomcat 6.0.24 – Whats New

jasonb on Thursday, January 21, 2010

The new stable release of Tomcat 6.0.24 represents six months of open source software development. Version 6.0.24 includes a small number of new features, plus a large amount of important bug fixes and enhancements. This release is an incremental bug fix release, but the number of fixes included in this release is high.

Tomcat Restarts: Is it a Big Deal?

Sateesh Narahari on Thursday, January 14, 2010

While we like to believe that our application servers and web applications are flawless, the reality is that applications have bugs. Sometimes, they have nasty bugs, such as holding onto references and thus causing larger memory consumption over time. As a result, many IT operations have put in place processes to restart the application servers [...]

Reducing risk of IT failure

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, January 5, 2010

ObjectWatch has put out a report titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. They estimate that we are losing $500 billion per month in IT failures. That’s a scary number. If this rate of failure continues, business confidence in IT will diminish. A couple of points in the report caught my eye, as they [...]