jasonb on Thursday, December 17, 2009
For those of you who are using Apache Tomcat in QA, staging, or production, I have no doubt that periodically you end up in the situation where you need to configure Tomcat’s server.xml, catalina.properties, logging.properties, and/or other Tomcat configuration files so that your webapps run the way you need them to run. Even though Tomcat [...]
jasonb on Saturday, October 10, 2009
The public beta phase is now complete — Tcat Server 6 R1 is now released! Thanks for all of the help and feedback you gave us during the public beta. We learned quite a bit about what you, the Apache Tomcat community, want in the form of an Enterprise Tomcat server. We made many important changes, added [...]
jasonb on Thursday, September 24, 2009
It’s a very good thing that Tomcat is open source software. Because it is open, it enjoys broad stand-alone adoption, plus it has been incorporated as part of many other application server products, both commercial and open source. Why reinvent the wheel when Tomcat works great as a generic web container, and the source code is free? Many [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
