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Guide to Tomcat Manager Application 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’re going to take an in-depth look at the Tomcat Manager Application. In a nutshell, the Tomcat Manager App is a web application that is packaged with the Tomcat server and provides us with the basic functionality we need to… Continue Reading tomcat-manager-app

Deploy a Spring Boot WAR into a Tomcat Server 1. Introduction Spring Boot is a convention over configuration framework that allows us to set up a production-ready setup of a Spring project, and Tomcat is one of the most popular Java Servlet Containers. By default, Spring Boot builds a standalone Java… Continue Reading spring-boot-war-tomcat-deploy

Configuring a Tomcat Connection Pool in Spring Boot 1. Overview Spring Boot is an opinionated – yet powerful – layer of abstraction placed on top of a plain Spring platform, which makes developing stand-alone and web applications a no-brainer. Spring Boot provides a few handy “starter” dependencies, aimed at running… Continue Reading spring-boot-tomcat-connection-pool

Programmatically Create, Configure and Run a Tomcat Server 1. Overview In this quick article, we’re going to programmatically create, configure and run a Tomcat server. 2. Setup Before we get started, we need to setup our Maven project by adding the below dependencies to our pom.xml: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat-catalina</artifactId>… Continue Reading tomcat-programmatic-setup

How to Configure Spring Boot Tomcat 1. Overview Spring Boot web applications include a pre-configured, embedded web server by default. In some situations though, we’d like to modify the default configuration to meet custom requirements. In this tutorial, we’ll look at a few common use cases for configuring the Tomcat… Continue Reading spring-boot-configure-tomcat

Making Tomcat UTF-8-Ready 1. Introduction UTF-8 is the most common character encoding used in web applications. It supports all languages currently spoken in the world including Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. In this article, we demonstrate all configuration needed to ensure UTF-8 in Tomcat. 2. Connector Configuration A Connector listens for… Continue Reading tomcat-utf-8

Comparing Embedded Servlet Containers in Spring Boot 1. Introduction The rising popularity of cloud-native applications and micro-services generate an increased demand for embedded servlet containers. Spring Boot allows developers to easily build applications or services using the 3 most mature containers available: Tomcat, Undertow, and Jetty. In this tutorial, we’ll… Continue Reading spring-boot-servlet-containers

Changing Tomcat HTTP Port to 80 1. Overview By default, Apache Tomcat runs on port 8080. In some cases, this port may already be taken by another process, or requirements may state that we have to use a different port. In this quick article, we’re going to show how to… Continue Reading tomcat-change-port

How to Deploy a WAR File to Tomcat 1. Overview Apache Tomcat is one of the most popular web servers in the Java community. It ships as a servlet container capable of serving Web ARchives with the WAR extension. It provides a management dashboard from which you can deploy a… Continue Reading tomcat-deploy-war