Amazon Free Usage Tier: Installing Tomcat 7 on an EC2 Linux instance

Amazon Web Services offers a free usage tier for 12 months that allows developers to run anything they want in…

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Tomcat’s Graceful Shutdown with Daemons and Shutdown Hooks

My last couple of blogs have talked about long polling and Spring’s DeferredResult technique and to demonstrate these concepts I’ve…

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Long Polling Tomcat with Spring

“Ooh err Missus” as comedian Frankie Howerd would have said, but enough of British innuendo and double entendre because Long…

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Spring JTA multiple resource transactions in Tomcat with Atomikos example

In this tutorial we shall show you how to implement JTA multiple resource transactions in a Tomcat server, using Atomikos…

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Tomcat in Eclipse: 6 popular “how to” questions

Learning a new technology is always a hard process. This process becomes even more difficult when you are trying to…

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Most popular application servers

This is the second post in the series where we publish statistical data about the Java installations. The used dataset…

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Virtual Host + Nginx + Tomcat

In my Virtual Host + Apache httpd server + Tomcat + mod_jk connector post has lots of comments. and i…

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Tomcat Clustering Series Part 5 : NginX as Load Balancer

This is my fifth part of the Tomcat Clustering Series.[Check the video below for better understanding]. In this post we…

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Going REST: embedding Tomcat with Spring and JAX-RS (Apache CXF)

This post is logical continuation of the previous one. The only difference is the container we are going to use:…

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