It is advisable to run Tomcat standalone, not connected through Apache httpd, because you will lose at least 50% of Tomcat’s response performance by proxying all requests through an Apache httpd ...

One of the great things about the Tomcat application server is the fact that the software used to develop and test applications is the exact same software that gets installed and used in a full scale ...

Recently, I was asked to reorganize some of our Web applications to improve their stability. The major push was to get each of our applications running in its own instance of Tomcat. These ...

WEB-INF/web.xml file, configure the security settings, including which URIs to secure, which authentication method to use (BASIC, DIGEST, FORM, or CLIENT-CERT), and whether to always use HTTPS.

Many of you have heard the term clustering. It is being thrown around as a buzzword by sales people, developers and just about anybody that deals with J2EE technology. For a lot of people it just ...