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 had difficulty with, and the changes I had to offer turned into implementation work.
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Since announcing Mule Data Integrator in November, we have seen great early adoption, with over a hundred organizations using it in development, and at least a handful who are going into production. The product is ideal for a wide variety of use cases, but one in particular has cropped up with some frequency: adding new trading partners (on-boarding) in large organizations.

Given that so many from the Mule community have been asking questions about this use case, we felt that it would make sense to do a live demo, showing how Mule Data Integrator can help dramatically simplify the on-boarding of trading partners and reduce the time to market for new customer or partner relationships.

Rapid Trading Partner on-boarding with Mule Data Integrator

Speaker: Francis Upton, Sr. Architect for Mule Data Integrator

Date: Wednesday, February 3rd

Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET

Click HERE to Register

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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. (more…)

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 are applicable to the points we have been discussing over the last several months.

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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 some features, and did a lot of testing.

During the public beta, one thing we learned from your feedback was that a significant percent of your production Tomcat instances are still Tomcat version 5.5, which was a very good release branch of Tomcat. It had significant performance enhancements over 5.0, in addition to memory footprint reductions, and more. We’re not surprised to see many Tomcat 5.5 instances still dutifully serving the web. For these reasons, we’ve added full support for Tomcat 5.5 in the first GA release of Tcat Server — it now supports stable versions of Tomcat 6.0 and Tomcat 5.5. This means a single Tcat Server console installation can control and monitor a mixed set of Tomcat server instance versions, spanning different operating systems both old and new.

Some very important additional features we’ve just released include:

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We have released the GA version of Tcat Server today. The last few weeks have been exciting, as we were getting a continuous stream of feedback from the community, customers, and prospects.

We added several new features since the public beta release, which I will discuss later in this post.

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Join us in booth 1833 (South Hall) at Oracle OpenWorld,  to experience firsthand the simplicity of MuleSoft Tcat Server and the enterprise-class features that make it “Tomcat with superpowers.”

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With the launch of MuleSoft Tcat Server, the MuleSoft support team has been working hard to ensure that we can deliver the same world-class support for Apache Tomcat and Tcat Server that we offer for Mule ESB. (more…)