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Including Files Into Tomcat’s server.xml Using XML Entity Includes

jasonb on Thursday, April 29, 2010

Once in a while I get questions about whether Apache Tomcat implements a way to include other files in server.xml, Tomcat’s main configuration file.  The answer is that there is a way to do it, and that Tomcat didn’t have to implement a new feature for it to work.  The way to do it is: [...]

Clean exposure of Spring beans using Servlet transport and Json module in Mule

Esteban Robles Luna on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

For one of my personal projects I need to expose some Spring services for a web application, but I don’t want to pollute my model and service classes with annotations, so here’s how I might use Mule ESB for this task.

The easiest way to get Tcat on Ubuntu

Sateesh Narahari on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Linux has become the platform of choice for many enterprises and has led the move towards reducing costs and improving effectiveness by using Open Source solutions. Our friends at Canonical are leading the charge in providing easy to use, compelling solution in Ubuntu.

Clustering your Tomcat Servers: Webinar

amber.taylor on Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Tomorrow, MuleSoft’s Sateesh Narahari (Director of Product Management) and Jason Brittain (MuleSoft Architect and co-author of Tomcat: the Definitive Guide) along with Terracotta’s Ari Zilka (CTO) and Mike Allen (Sr. Director of Product Management) will be doing a webinar on Clustering your Tomcat Servers.

Tomcat Admins: Automate your configuration changes

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, April 16, 2010

Apache Tomcat is the right sized application server for web applications. It does not have the bloat and complexity of Java EE application server and continues to be light weight and efficient. While Tomcat provides basic deployment capabilities, configuring Apache Tomcat instance for applications is a manual, error prone and repetitive process. When we launched [...]

Why use jBPM with Mule?

Travis Carlson on Thursday, April 15, 2010

Mule integrates with jBPM, allowing you to send/receive messages to/from a running process. A message from Mule can start or advance a process, the message can be used as a process variable, and a process can send messages to any endpoint in your Mule config.

Custom project templates in Mule IDE

Dirk Olmes on Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Last week at the Mule Summit, I gave a presentation on Mule IDE. One of the questions from the audience was about putting your own examples in the “Sample content” drop down on the “New project” dialog. This is actually possible today. Here is how you do it:

Streamlining Tomcat App Development by 30%: State of Alaska

mahau.ma on Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The State of Alaska uses Tcat Server for configuration management of its Apache Tomcat servers, and to automate the deployment process for key Tomcat applications.

First release including the new XMPP transport

Dirk Olmes on Monday, April 5, 2010

Until recently, the XMPP transport was developed on its own feature branch to make sure it doesn’t interfere with the regular Mule 3 development. I’ve been blogging recently about the usefulness of the transport. That blog post included a link to a custom bamboo build plan from which you could download a Mule distribution that [...]