Optimizing and Tuning Apache Tomcat

posted by SpringSource on April 8, 2010 12:06 PM

For development and operations teams, a presentation that covers approaches for optimizing and tuning Apache Tomcat.

As Tomcat takes on greater roles in enterprise environments, proper tuning and optimization becomes “top of mind” for all stakeholders as well as IT developers and operations teams.  Key approaches and processes are laid out to help understand the process to ensure Tomcat runs successfully and with performance.

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Presentation Agenda: 

• Optimization and Tuning Process
• Making the process easier
  • Tomcat configuration
  • Other tools
• Reliability
• Scalability

Presentation Outline:

• The process
• Common errors
• Understand the architecture
• Stabilize the System
• Agree the target(s)
• Measure performance
• Identify the bottleneck
• Application logging
• Profiler
• Other information sources
• Fix the root casue
• Review deployment options
• Application update options
• Server.xml update options
• Avoiding down time
• Cluster considerations
• The stateless approach
• Add sticky session support
• Add session replication
• How to avoid down time
• Reliability
• Scalability
• Concurrent requests

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