jasonb on Monday, February 28, 2011
There is no shortage of well-known reasons for wanting to migrate your Java EE web application to open source Tomcat. But without development experience with both your current Java EE application server as well as with Tomcat, it isn’t clear what you must change in your Java EE application to get it to run properly [...]
jasonb on Friday, January 14, 2011
Tomcat 7.0.6 has just been voted the first Tomcat 7 stable release! This makes Tomcat 6.0.x only a supported stable release, not the latest stable as it had been for several years. A little more than a half a year ago we saw the first 7.0.0 beta release, which was exciting, but now the first [...]
jasonb on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
You wouldn’t necessarily be very excited about reliable, graceful app server restarts — unless you go to restart your server and it doesn’t restart, or unless the restart script corrupted your webapp data. There are times when a reasonably fast, fully reliable restart is a very important feature. Some examples: You found that your webapp [...]
jasonb on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Many of you reading this have already seen the Apache Software Foundation’s press release about Tomcat 7.0.0 — it was voted beta quality on June 25th, and the Tomcat 7 web pages went live on the Tomcat project web site this morning. It looks wonderful! Congratulations to the Tomcat development team on a year and [...]
jasonb on Monday, May 3, 2010
For those of you who develop in Eclipse, and are also running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process (the way Tomcat is usually run), it is fairly easy to debug your web applications using the Eclipse debugger. For that matter, you could also debug Tomcat’s code this way as well, if you want to inspect [...]
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: [...]
jasonb on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of our newest release of Tcat Server 6. This new release includes many fixes, in addition to bundling the Apache Software Foundation’s official release binaries of the newest Tomcat release, version 6.0.26. Here is a summary of the changes and fixes that are included in the new version [...]
jasonb on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
As mentioned in my last post, I have recently spent some time improving the Tomcat package on the Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions. This post goes into more detail on those changes.
jasonb on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Recently, while working with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, an opportunity came up for us at MuleSoft to take on open-source community work to improve the Ubuntu Tomcat 6 package. Having spent several years administering the most popular Tomcat Internet Relay Chat channel, I’ve gathered lots of feedback from Tomcat users about what they [...]
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.
