Tomcat’s Default Connector(s)

Tomcat has a couple of connectors to choose from. I’ll leave aside the APR connector, and focus on the BIO…

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Run java web apps in embedded containers with Maven, Jetty and Tomcat

While developing java web applications is very practical to have quick feedback from a “real” environment. In this post I’ll…

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Self-Signed Certificate for Apache TomEE (and Tomcat)

Probably in most of your Java EE projects you will have part or whole system with SSL support (https) so…

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Tomcat to Wildfly: Configuring Database connectivity

This excerpt has been taken from the “From Tomcat to WildFly” book in which you’ll learn how to port your…

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Spring Boot / Java 8 / Tomcat 8 on Openshift with DIY

DIY cartridge is an experimental cartridge that provides a way to test unsupported languages on OpenShift. It provides a minimal,…

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Apache Tomcat and Denial-of-service vulnerability

Websites hosted on Apache Tomcat servers seem to be vulnerable against denial-of-service attacks, as was recently proven by security researchers…

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Using an Embedded Tomcat with Maven tomcat plugin

When developing a java web application using the Eclipse WTP, we need to have an installation of tomcat in the…

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HOW-TO: Custom error pages in Tomcat with Spring MVC

Default Tomcat error pages look scary. In addition, they may expose valuable information including server version and exception stack trace.…

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JSF Tomcat Configuration Example

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a web application framework that is intended to simplify development integration of web-based user interfaces. It…

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