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apache proxy to tomcat keep alive confusion

I have an apache 2.2 server infront of a tomcat 6 server. using mod_proxy_ajp on apache to proxy requests to tomcat. pretty standard setup. If I need to disable keep-alive connections for browsers, how do i do this? I need to do disable keep-alive http requests because i suspect some of my users have firewalls that might be dropping an...

web.xml filter-mapping not forwarding to struts

Hello, I am trying to do something trivial and can't see what I'm missing. I have the following web.xml... <filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern...

Are my assumptions about configuration correct?

I want to use to implement only REST service - a very simple one returning 'person' by full name or id in JSON. Im probably will be using JAX-RS and maybe JAXB - im not sure if tis is a right choise. I want to use it with following technologies/products and their versions: JDK 1.5 Eclipse 3.5 EE Tomcat 6.0 CXF 2.2.5 Spring 2.5.1 My q...

War deployment on Tomcat takes ages

I have a Grails application, built to a war file (~30mb). When I attempt to deploy the war file on Tomcat 6 via the application manager, it takes upwards of 10 minutes to deploy, or hangs indefinitely. When it hangs I can restart Tomcat and the app is usually deployed, however sometimes I have to repeat the process. I've also noticed tha...

Where/how to store persistent data with tomcat ?

Where should I store persistent files in a Tomcat web app ? javax.servlet.context.tempdir is not feasible, it's erased when the app is redeployed/removed Don't want to use an absolute path in e.g. servlet init parameters Storing the files in a database is not an option ...

Configuring container-based authentication with alternative digest methods

Following up on a prior question, I'm trying to figure out how to set up container-based authentication for a J2EE application. Specifically, I need to be able to apply a password digest algorithm other than the ones supported by the java.security.MessageDigest (which are SHA, MD2, or MD5 - here's where I think that limitation is documen...

Hot Deploy of development changes with Eclipse, Tomcat, and Jetspeed

Hi, I am developing a Jetspeed portal application running on Tomcat, using the Eclipse IDE with the Sysdeo Tomcat launcher plugin to enable debugging of the application running in Tomcat/Jetspeed. I was wondering how to enable hot deploy of development changes for this environment? Does anyone know how to configure a Jetspeed portal web...

Storing java objects in server memory

Hi all, I got a java web project handling several objects (again containing n objects of type A (e.g. time and value) and m objects of type B (e.g. time and String array)). The web projects itself contains several servlets/jsps for visualization as well as some logic for data manipulation and currently runs on an Apache Tomcat. Is it ...

Standalone Tomcat 6.0.* + 20,000 simultaneous connections

Does anyone know how to configure Tomcat 6.0 as a standalone web server (on Windows XP) that can handle 20,000 simultaneous connections? Please help me. ...

must do configurations in tomcat for prod configuration?

Hi, Anyone has some pointers/recipe for must/should do configurations for putting a war into production with Tomcat 6.0.20? I understand that it depends on my application, I just want to leverage the communities experience :-) My application will mainly receive webservice requests (CXF and Spring security) store them to DB (JPA/Hiberna...

web.xml URL pattern matching question for Tomcat

I'd like to use this kind of a pattern for my Java web app: <url-pattern>/*/test.html</url-pattern> and then parse the URL in the servlet to get what the value of the star is, and use that value to query a different table in the database. However this seems to be an illegal pattern for Tomcat. Is there any way I can achieve this with...

Porting app from tomcat to glassfish

My app have this architecture: struts spring dwr hibernate Now we use apache tomcat 5.5.28. We wanna switch to Glassfish for performance. My question are: anyone know if there are problem for porting using this 4 framework? anyone know a guide for porting? or ... there are an official guide for porting from tomcat to glassfish?...

What's an easy, quick way to reload a webapp in tomcat in dev environment?

I'm running Tomcat 6 on Windows. I've got the "Monitor Tomcat" system tray icon which allows me to start and shutdown Tomcat, but is there another little tool that allows me to easily reload my web app when I've changed the class files? I know the "manager" app that comes with Tomcat does this but just wondering if there's a native app t...

Set the path of web app in META-INF/context.xml?

I'm tryin to change the path of a deployed war file in Tomcat. Reading the documentation I can't figure out if this is possible without moving the context-file to the /conf directory. Is it possible to deploy a war-file without having a external (outside the war) context file and set path to /something Cheers! Tomas ...

list available web services on tomcat using spring-ws

Is it possible to get a list of all available web services on a tomcat server? ...

Not so Strange error: Could not parse [..] hibernate.cfg.xml [..] Caused by: org.dom4j.DocumentException: org.dom4j.DocumentFactory cannot be cast to org.dom4j.DocumentFactory

I am deploying my application to Tomcat 6.0.20. Application uses Hibernate as ORM, Spring, and JSF for web-tier. I also made simple runner from main() method to test Spring-Hibernate collaboration. And it does work fine and hibernate.cfg.xml is parsed pretty well. I can append some code or full stack trace but I'm not sure that it's n...

Deploying multiple grails applications with Apache/Tomcat + Virtual Hosts

I haven't been able to figure out how to deploy multiple grails applications with Apache/Tomcat where a virtual host is mapped to each grails app I can get it so that http://virtualhost1.example.com/myGrailsApplication-0.1/ works, but what I want is for http://virtualhost1.example.com/ to go directly to my application. A lot of tu...

Cross-site tomcat form post not working

Hi, For a customer, I need to write a Servlet which can print values in a form post. The form is hosted on another server and looks somewhat like this: <form action="http://myserver/myServlet" method="POST"> <input type="text" id="someName" value="someInterestingValue"/> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> I have a Tomcat ...

eclipse debugger: attaching source-code of maven dependencies?

I'd like to use the source code of maven-managed dependencies when debugging our webapp in myEclipse 8. I have managed to attach the sources to the libraries in the "Maven Managed Dependencies" classpath container, i.e. when I open a class file from a dependency (e.g. using Ctrl-Shift-T), I see the source code. However, when I define a...

Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application

I have a Java web application, using Spring and Struts, running on Tomcat 5.5. I want to load static images that will be shown both on the Web UI and in PDF files generated by the application. Also new images will be added and saved by uploading via the Web UI. It's not a problem to do this by having the static data stored within the th...