Archive for the ‘tomcat’ Category

Running Roo Applications in Tomcat 5.5

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I used Spring Roo for a small, public web application recently, and all went well until I attempted to deploy it on a hosted VPS. The application didn't deploy, and I got the dreaded error message: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/el/ValueExpression A little poking around led me to this Roo bug report that details the problem. ...

Default (All-Java) Tomcat Faster Than Using Apache Portable Runtime?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I got a request from a client for performance-tuning Tomcat. Typically, I don't really do a lot performance tuning for Tomcat - usually, I front it with Apache HTTPD, and spend most of my performance tuning efforts on the application, not the server. I got thinking about it, though, and remembered that ...