posted by SpringSource on February 9, 2010 12:44 PM

If the database server times out a connection, the connection pool on Tomcat side would not be aware of its disconnection.

If the database server times out a connection, the connection pool on Tomcat side would not be aware of its disconnection, and could throw the following exception in Tomcat:

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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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posted by SpringSource on October 28, 2009 12:10 PM

The cause for an HTTP 404 error in Tomcat.

Tomcat fails to start and return a 404 error. Java stack trace shows:

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posted by SpringSource on October 27, 2009 03:14 PM

Changing log verbosity in Tomcat 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5

Tomcat 4.1
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In Tomcat 4.1, the logVerbosityLevel attribute for the Logger element can be used to set the log level. FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFORMATION, and DEBUG are the valid values. The default setting is at the WARNING level.

Tomcat 5.0
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In Tomcat 5.0, it can be changed through commons logging or log4j. Log4j is recommended as it has greater flexibility. In doing so:

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