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Webinar: Improve Tomcat Productivity

amber.taylor on Monday, July 26, 2010

Do you ever ask yourself these questions: “Can I eliminate the redeploy phase from Tomcat’s development cycle? How can I more efficiently diagnose performance bottlenecks in my Tomcat application? How can I simplify configuring Tomcat for my application?” Apache Tomcat users spend 160 hours per year waiting for redeploys, not to mention the time getting [...]

The easiest way to run Tomcat as a Windows service

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, July 23, 2010

Organizations running Apache Tomcat in production on Windows often want to run Tomcat as a Windows service. This removes the need for someone to be actively logged into the server and provides an easy way to integrate with Windows management tools. In this blog, I will explain the easiest way to run Tomcat as a [...]

Screencast: From install to RESTful resource in less than 3 minutes

juergen.brendel on Tuesday, July 20, 2010

We have put up a screencast that shows you how to get started with RESTx, our platform for the rapid, easy creation of RESTful web services. RESTx allows developers to contribute data access, integration and processing components in Java or Python, using a very simple API. Then, with nothing more than a browser and a [...]

Easily optimizing Python: Extending with Java

juergen.brendel on Monday, July 19, 2010

Our RESTx project – a platform for the rapid and easy creation of RESTful web services and resources – is largely written in Python. Python is a dynamic, duck-typed programming language, which puts very little obstacles between your idea and working code. At least that’s the feeling I had when I started to work with [...]

Multiple Tomcat Instances Made Easy

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, July 16, 2010

“Having Trouble With Multiple Instances” is one of those famous Tomcat users list topics that never goes away.  In fact, the question has been asked so many times that at this point, the people asking it are lucky if they get a response that’s more helpful than RTFM. These errors are almost always caused by [...]

Mule 3 Milestone 4 Released

Travis Carlson on Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Mule ESB team is pleased to announce the next milestone towards our final Mule 3.0 release.

Turbo charging front-end development with user-created RESTful resources

juergen.brendel on Wednesday, July 14, 2010

In this article, I will show you how RESTx – an open source project for the creation of RESTful web services and RESTful resources – allows front-end developers to quickly and easily make their own data resources, without having to rely on the back-end server team for every new requirement.

Announcing Tcat Server 6 R3

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We released Tcat Server 6 R3 today. This release packs features that were directly a result of customer feedback. Here are some of the highlights: Support for Tomcat 7.0 beta – Tomcat 7.0 beta was recently announced.  Our engineers have been working with Tomcat 7.0 to support it as soon as it came out. You [...]

Webinar: Getting to the Mainframe in 30-minutes

amber.taylor on Monday, July 12, 2010

Do you have applications that rely on data or application logic in CICS/COBOL systems? Do you need to integrate those mainframe applications with the rest of your Java applications and services? Do you need an easy way to get COBOL data in and out of your mainframe environment? Do you need to safely bring high-value [...]

Beyond Integration, Part 2: Shattering Monoliths

David Dossot on Monday, July 12, 2010

After Peak Time Handling, and its heated discussions , the Beyond Integration series continue with this new installment! The thought of working on a legacy system makes developers shiver: they know the feeling of tiptoeing in a crystal palace or trying to run with lead-soled shows (and sometimes having to do both at the same [...]