Using the Tomcat 7 JDBC Connection Pool in Production
One of the new features with Tomcat 7 is a replacement to the commons-dbcp connection pool. While the commons-dbcp connection pool works fine for small or low traffic applications, it is known to have problems in highly concurrent environments (think multi-core/multi-cpu).
Apache Tomcat 7.0.23 Release
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.23
Performance Tuning the JVM for Running Tomcat
This article is the second in a series discussing how to performance tune the JVM to better run Apache Tomcat. In the first article, we discussed the basic basic goals and how to monitor the performance of your JVM.
Setting Up Measurement of Garbage Collection in Apache Tomcat
Have you ever seen this scenario before? A user has deployed an application to a Tomcat server. The application works great during testing and QA; however, when the user moves the application into production, the load increases and Tomcat stops handling requests……
A Finer Point of Apache Tomcat Valves
Valves have been an integral feature of Apache Tomcat since version 4 was introduced over seven years ago. As their name suggests, valves provide a way of inserting functionality within a pipeline, in this case, the Tomcat request / response stream.
Best Practices for Securing Apache Tomcat 7
Every effort is made to have each version of Apache Tomcat to ship with a system of reasonable defaults for security purposes. This means that the standard defaults for the security settings are reasonably secure—it is not as secure as it could be, but not horribly insecure either.
