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 [...]
Sateesh Narahari on Thursday, October 7, 2010
With a focus on production ready features, Tcat Server has become the leading enterprise Apache Tomcat in the world. As more and more leading organizations are adopting Tcat Server and using it to run their most demanding applications, we have been hearing from them about the features they need for gaining better visibility and for managing their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
