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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 [...]

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 [...]

Control Tomcat from your iPhone

Sateesh Narahari on Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Recently I was hiking with couple of friends – one of them runs IT operations for a large consumer company. He was on call that weekend, so, sure enough, his phone rang: it was the customer service coordinator who was saying that her team was not able to access the application. My friend had to [...]

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.

Announcing Support for Apache Tomcat 6.0.26

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, March 12, 2010

One of the good things about Apache Tomcat is that it is world’s most efficient and effective application server for running web applications. Legacy Java EE application servers can be more trouble than they are worth due to their inherent complexity and feature bloat. In January of this year, the Apache Software Foundation released, Tomcat 6.0.24 [...]

Simplicity in the Cloud: Announcing Cloudcat

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Today, MuleSoft announced a new cloud service offering – Cloudcat – which will dramatically reduce the time and effort it takes to use Apache Tomcat in the cloud. Your application infrastructure should never get in the way of delivering the web applications.  Cloud computing has been gaining rapid adoption with developers and IT organizations alike, [...]

Is your Tomcat Secure?

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Apache Tomcat is the perfect application server for deploying your web applications in production. In fact, it also happens to be the only Java application server that has hardening guidelines published by Center for Internet Security (CIS). CIS publishes hardening guidelines for widely used software to help enterprises protect their deployments. The very fact that [...]

Tomcat Restarts: Is it a Big Deal?

Sateesh Narahari on Thursday, January 14, 2010

While we like to believe that our application servers and web applications are flawless, the reality is that applications have bugs. Sometimes, they have nasty bugs, such as holding onto references and thus causing larger memory consumption over time. As a result, many IT operations have put in place processes to restart the application servers [...]

Research Report Confirms Shift to Apache Tomcat

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, December 18, 2009

The move from big legacy Java EE application servers such as IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic to Apache Tomcat is accelerating, according to a recent Tomcat survey that MuleSoft drove in collaboration with Computerworld.

Upcoming webinar and live demo: Intro to MuleSoft Tcat Server

Community on Friday, September 11, 2009

Finally, a way to develop and deploy Tomcat applications with ease! Are you developing applications on Apache Tomcat, or are you a Tomcat administrator? Have you been looking for ways to reduce tedious manual work as you deploy and manage your Tomcat applications, or are you seeking better visibility into your application’s performance metrics and [...]