We often distribute webapps by providing a WAR, and a Context XML file, which gets placed into your tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost directory, and can load the webapp from any path. There is a reference document here. This provides the following advantages: Context parameters can be configured here and read by the webapp DataSources can be defined and … Read more
Analysis First some random facts: if not given a class loader, JAXBContext::newInstance will use the thread’s context class loader when looking for the JAXB implementation – this is the case even if you call newInstance(Class…) (one might mistakenly think it uses the provided class instances’ loader) Tomcat builds a small class loader hierarchy to separate … Read more
As Tomcat internally uses JUL to log , you can use the system property java.util.logging.config.file to specify the file path of the properties file. For the format of this properties file , you can refer to your JRE_HOME/lib/logging.properties (which is the default configuration file used by JUL) However, JUL does not support the daily rotation … Read more
Since #1 supports Tomcat why would one want to use #2? spring-boot-starter-web contains spring-boot-starter-tomcat. spring-boot-starter-tomcat could potentially be used on its own if spring mvc isn’t needed (contained in spring-boot-starter-web). Here is the dependency hierarchy of spring-boot-starter-web: What are the differences? spring-boot-starter-web contains spring web dependencies (including spring-boot-starter-tomcat): spring-boot-starter jackson spring-core spring-mvc spring-boot-starter-tomcat spring-boot-starter-tomcat contains … Read more
Try Openshift. https://www.openshift.com With 3 free gears you can setup Tomcat/JBoss and MySQL. It can be integrated with Eclipse and hot deployments are possible (via git). Also, to MySQL, you can add PhpMyAdmin controller.
Well presumably it’s not using the same version of Java when running it externally. Look through the startup scripts carefully to find where it picks up the version of Java to run. You should also check the startup logs to see whether they indicate which version is running. Alternatively, unless you need the Java 7 … Read more
Historically, tomcat has never updated the exploded directory when you just drop in a new jar, at least for me. I always assumed this to be a bug, but never looked into it as there is a simple solution. Both of these should work fine: Deploy the war file using the build-in Manager application. Fine … Read more
Solved! It seems according to the multipart MIME spec, the order of the parts are important. They should be added in order from low fidelity to high fidelity. So it seems GMail follows the spec and uses the last part. In my case I had them HTML, Text. I just swapped the order to Text, … Read more
If Tomcat is fronted by Apache on port 80, you will need to enable compression in Apache itself. The compression in Tomcat will only work if you access it directly on port 8080.