MuleSource has moved!

MuleSource, the company behind Mule ESB, is now MuleSoft. Please visit us at our new website. We have announced a new product, MuleSoft Tcat Server – a fully supported enterprise Tomcat server with features that dramatically simplify the management of Tomcat and Tomcat 7 applications for developers and IT administrators. With the market-leading Mule ESB and the new Tcat Server, MuleSoft brings simple yet powerful infrastructure to today's dynamic Web applications.

 

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MuleSoft now provides free Apache Tomcat resources!

MuleSoft is working in collaboration with the Tomcat community on a number of free Apache Tomcat community resources and guides. The aim of these resources is to provide Apache users with general purpose guides to help troubleshoot various problems. Like Wikipedia, these resources depend on community contributions. The guides are currently focused on resolving known issues with Tomcat 6.0, and more generally post Tomcat 6 releases, but community resources aimed at resolving issues surrounding earlier releases such as Tomcat 5.5 are also available.

We followed a model pioneered by other open-source companies like Redhat: provide guides for known hassles, like tomcat logging (log rotation is now simplified), tomcat configuration (modifying environment variables is now easy), and tomcat performance. We have made the guides publicly available, free of charge, and we try to minimize all barriers to contribution. We don't require people to register or provide their email addresses to download. We keep the guides search friendly, and focus on tomcat windows problems in the same way that we focus on tomcat linux problems-- in other words, we're neutral, we just provide the guides no matter the operating system, no matter the issue.

As of this writing, the guides do not form a comprehensive directory, but the idea is that over time anyone looking for help on tomcat security issues (we summarize the Center for Internet Security's hardened security guidelines), or anyone trying to resolve tomcat ssl problems, will be able to look to these guides for answers. Our tomcat jmx resource has been very popular, and our tomcat jvm resource has a lot of material. We also recommend Adobe's guides on a number of subjects.

The W3C provides a resource on how to install a CSS validator, and MuleSoft provides resources to download tomcat, resolve tomcat start problems using the tomcat manager. We also empower users to diagnose a range of problems typically encountered while using tomcat admin tools.

Other issues we cover include tomcat's servlet container, catalina, in our tomcat catalina guide. We also put up a fairly simple tomcat context guide where we explain that a context refers to a web application and that it typically corresponds to a set of XML elements and attributes that define the context in a server.xml file or a seperate file. Similarly, our tomcat jsp guide, and also our tomcat connector guide, serve as general purpose community resources.

We're building a tomcat service page to help resolve problems related to running tomcat as a service. If you want to know how to tell if a client closed his or her end of an HTTP connection, check out our tomcat servlet page. If you need help deploying applications using apache tomcat, then please visit our tomcat deploy page. MySQL is often used with Tomcat, and if you need encounter difficulties using the two together your resolution is likely in our tomcat mysql page; likewise with tomcat eclipse. We hope to continue building these resource pages, and others (like tomcat memory) over time.