High Availability for Web applications

As more mission critical applications move to the cloud, making the application highly available becomes super critical. An application not…

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Web Services with JAX-WS on Tomcat

Let us assume an enterprise is maintaining user authentication details in a centralized system. We need to create an AuthenticationService…

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Ubuntu: Installing Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for Tomcat

After reading “Introducing Apache Tomcat 6? presentation by Mladen Turk I decided to enable Apache Portable Runtime (APR) native library…

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Tomcat & IntelliJ – Deploy war files outside webapps folder

At present I am working on developing an Android application that needs to be supported by a slew of REST…

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Launching and Debugging Tomcat from Eclipse without complex plugins

Modern IDEs like Eclipse provide various Plugins to ease web developement. However, I believe that starting Tomcat as “normal” Java…

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Change Without Redeploying With Eclipse And Tomcat

They say developing Java is slow because of the bloated application servers – you have to redeploy the application to…

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Multiple Tomcat Instances on Single Machine

In this post we will see how to run multiple tomcat instances on a single machine and under a single user account.…

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Web Services in Ruby, Python and Java

Today I’ve had to prepare some examples to show that web services are interoperable. So I’ve created a simple web…

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Zero-downtime Deployment (and Rollback) in Tomcat; a walkthrough and a checklist

Dear All, If you thought Tomcat could not get any better, you thought wrong. Tomcat 7 introduces what is called…

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