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

For development and operations teams, a presentation that covers various security configuration options available in Apache Tomcat and SpringSource tc Server.

A default Apache Tomcat installation is secure but each installation environment is different and may have additional security requirements. This presentation will examine the security configuration options available in Apache Tomcat and SpringSource tc Server, when to use them (and when not to use them) and the threats they might help mitigate. The rationale behind having resource passwords (e.g. for database access) in clear text in server.xml will also be discussed.

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posted by SpringSource on December 28, 2009 06:05 PM

How to configure your web application's stderr and stdout messages be redirected to the application's log file for Tomcat 5.5 in ERS 3.x

For standard web applications, error messages and output are streamed to log files using sterr and stdout respectively. Some application developers prefer to aggregate all these messages into the application log.

The following steps are required to configure your web application's stderr and stdout messages be redirected to the application's log file for Tomcat 5.5 in ERS 3.1 utilizing java.util.logging:

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