Tomcat is just a servlet container, i.e. it implements only the servlets and JSP specification. Glassfish and JBoss are full Java EE servers (including stuff like EJB, JMS, …), with Glassfish being the reference implementation of the latest Java EE 6 stack, but JBoss in 2010 was not fully supporting it yet.
I don’t use this method to externalise properties. First, I’ll try a suggestion for your method and then I’ll show you what I’m using. The suggestion for your method is to use file:/// instead of file:/ as with Spring I found that when not passing the three slashes after the colon it didn’t recognise the … Read more
You can’t usually invalidate a user session(s) immediately you change their account information without resorting to a container specific API, since the only way to access the HttpSession is through the HttpServletRequest object. Instead you can cache the username in an in-memory store and consult it either in a filter or a custom AccessDecisionVoter. Using … Read more
In order to get HttpServletRequest#getParts() to work in a Filter in Tomcat, you need to set allowCasualMultipartParsing=”true” in the webapp’s <Context> element in Webapp/META-INF/context.xml or Tomcat/conf/server.xml. <Context … allowCasualMultipartParsing=”true”> Because as per the servlet 3.0 specification the HttpServletRequest#getParts() should only be available inside a HttpServlet with the @MultipartConfig annotation. See also the documentation of the … Read more
Change your server.xml so that it will use port numbers expanded from properties instead of hardcoded ones: <Server port=”${port.shutdown}” shutdown=”SHUTDOWN”> … <Connector port=”${port.http}” protocol=”HTTP/1.1″/> … </Server> Here’s how you can start in Linux (assuming your current directory is CATALINA_HOME): JAVA_OPTS=”-Dport.shutdown=8005 -Dport.http=8080″ bin/startup.sh In windows it should be smth like following: set “JAVA_OPTS=-Dport.shutdown=8005 -Dport.http=8080” bin\startup.bat
Check out ServletUnit, which is part of HttpUnit. In a nutshell, ServletUnit provides a library of mocks and utilities you can use in ordinary JUnit tests to mock out a servlet container and other servlet-related objects like request and response objects. The link above contains examples.
I’m developing a web app in Eclipse. where is the deployment directory tree situated? In the Apache directory structure or some sub-directory tree structure in my Java workspace tree? It all depends on how your Tomcat Server is configured. The default should be: .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0. But you can change this in the Tomcat server configuration. To … Read more
See the URLRewriteFilter
By default IntelliJ IDEA modifies CATALINA_BASE environment so that Tomcat uses adjusted configuration files for deploying applications directly from the artifact output location, however it’s possible to override this behavior and configure everything manually (either by changing the artifact output to go into webapps or by changing the server configuration in the same way IDEA … Read more
If you have a singleton class and you run two webapps that use this class in Tomcat both webapps will get 2 different instances of this singleton in JVM running the Tomcat. But if your webapp will use a singleton from JRE or Tomcat shared libs, eg Runtime.getRuntime webapps will get the same instance of … Read more