tomcat

Which is the best way to mask / hide tomcat version from error pages ?

Could somebody please let me know which of the following two approaches is recommended and why : Make the necessary changes to ServerInfo.properties Define "error-page" in web.xml ...

My First Tomcat Servlet

I seem to be having trouble with Tomcat servlets and even setting up my own. I am using Windows Vista x64 bit. I CAN connect and see the servlet examples. I just don't know how to go about creating my own. Can anyone pinpoint to me a guide on "my first servlet" with a step-by-step instructions on how-to? Thanks. [Do not close this as ...

How to remove the file suffix/extension (.jsp and .action) using the Stripes Framework?

I'm looking to use pretty / clean URL's in my web app. I would like the following URL: http://mydomain.com/myapp/calculator .. to resolve to: com.mydomain.myapp.action.CalculatorActionBean I tried overwriting the NameBasedActionResolver with: public class CustomActionResolver extends NameBasedActionResolver { public static fi...

JSP or RUBY/PHP?

At my technologies crossroads and would like to hear some words of wisdom or tales of caution. I am on the verge of assembling a development team and all things are set save my controller layer - which way should I proceed..? I personally am an experienced Java programmer and would certainly never even consider ASP (ever) but, would cert...

"Access is denied" message while deploying spring app in tomcat 6

Hello all, While trying to deploy my spring app on tomcat 6 I get an error saying java.util.logging.errormanager:4 java.io.filenotfoundexception: c:\program files\apache software foundation\tomcat 6.0\logs\catalina.2010.02.16.log <Access is denied> at java.io.fileoutputstream.openappend <native method> at java.io.fileoutputstream....

Deploy Grails to a Sub-Context Path

I would like to deploy a grails war to a sub context path but when I try this the application will not load and an error filterStart so I'm either missing something or grails can't be deployed to a sub-context. Is there any way to load grails in a sub context? ...

UploadError 403 in swfupload for Firefox

I'm trying to upload files using swfuploder and it works fine in IE.But its getting "UploadError 403" in Firefox. I'm using apache-tomcat-6.0.16 and couldnt access the .htaccess file as well. This is my code to use for swfupload. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-tran...

Tomcat crashes if make mutlithreaded native call using Jace JNI

I am using Netbeans to build a java web project (tomcat 6.02 based) which loads a c++ native dll. I am using Jace library which wraps JNI. In my java code I have a static callback function which I call from c++ code. I am trying to invoke this callback in a new thread using boost.Thread but tomcat just dies without any message or crash ...

maven tomcat plugin with mysql driver in $catalina_home/lib

Hi everybody, i am trying to use a container managed datasource (via context.xml) in tomcat. The corresponding jar file needs to go in $catalina_home/lib, otherwise tomcat can't find it. (not in webapp/WEB-INF/lib, because it is managed by the webserver, not by the application itself) the problem is: I am using maven with the maven-to...

How to configure Tomcat to not encode the session id into the URL when HttpServletResponse.encodeURL() is invoked

Seems like a stupid question to which the answer would be "Don't use encodeURL()!" but I'm working with a codebase that uses netui anchor tags in the JSPs and I need to disable the writing of JSESSIONID into the URLs as it is a security risk. In WebLogic, you can configure this by configuring url-rewriting-enabled in weblogic.xml (I kn...

How to use a single JavaBean in many pages accross a JSP frameset

Hi I have a bean declared on a page that holds a frameset <jsp:useBean id="pos" class="MyBeanscope="page"> <jsp:setProperty name="a" property="a"/> </jsp:useBean> [some initialisation of MyBean] <frameset ... > <frame src="/myframe1.jsp"...> <frame src="/myframe2.jsp"...> </frameset> My question is, how do I access MyBean i...

Tomcat Web Application Thread Dump

I have a production web application (Struts, iBatis, Hibernate) that runs in Tomcat that would hang while serving requests after 6 - 7 days of running but would run fine again after doing a thread dump. I have a hard time figuring out why that is the case. I was just wondering whether anyone else has ever encountered something similar....

Tomcat started in eclipse but unable to connect to link to http://localhost:8085/

I configured Tomcat Server 6.0.24 in Eclipse and started successfully with console display: Feb 17, 2010 4:24:31 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\...

axis2 Web service. Where to put my own configuration

I have written a Web Service in Java using axis2 and the POJO deployment (to a Tomcat server). My service opens a connection to a MySQL database. To do that, I need the connection string. Where do I put the connection string, so I don't have to hard code it into the code? And how do I access it from code? I would like to set this paramet...

Most useful java servlet Filter out there?

Very interesting tricks can be done with java servlet filters in security, performance, etc. What are the best servlet filters out there? ...

Deploying Java Application As Servlet

I have a java application that up until now was run as a stand alone java application (i.e. executable jar). I now need to deploy it in Tomcat as a servlet. It doesn't need to actually process any HTTP requests though, but it needs to be started using tomcat. What are the steps required to convert the project so that it can be deployed ...

How to get catalina.out on Windows for Tomcat

Hi, I am running Tomcat 6 on Windows XP as standalone application(not as service, I am using startup.bat for launch). When I am starting tomcat I get new system window opened with stdout there. My question is: how can I redirect stdout to catalina.out in my case? Thanks. ...

Is this a JBOSS web service? Tomcat? How to create a server.xml file?

I am working on a webservice that a previous employee built and I am just trying to figure out what documentation I need to be looking at. I think that the webservice is using JBOSS and therefore using Apache Tomcat. In the project there are several webservices so it is somewhat tricky to tell which is using what. (What are shared file...

Modify Servlet parameters

Hi guys, I've a GWT Servlet running in a Tomcat 6.0 server. This server acts as a proxy to another service. This final service may be running in different IPs and/or ports in my network. How can I configure my GWT Servlet to connect to any of my services without manually modifying the web.xml file? I'm initializing my servlet with: ...

What are the advantages/disadvantages of the Tomcat request handling instance?

What are the advantages/disadvantages with regards to the fact that Tomcat only creates one instance of a Servlet class to handle all requests for a JSP/servlet? ...