tomcat6

I'm using tomcat 6.0.32 in windows 7. Inside a very simple servlet, inside the init method, I'm printing: System.out.println(Charset.defaultCharset()); The output is: windows-1253 As far as I understand this is how tomcat start's in the JVM since I'm printing the same in standalone java class and I get "UTF8" as a response. So, how can I change this to UTF-8? thanks Just create a setenv.bat file inside the TOMCAT/bin directory with the following contents: set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8" You may also add this setting in the Tomcat 7.0 windows service manager. from Dr James

With JSF 2 you should be able to do this: <h:commandButton action="#{myBean.myAction(myParameter)}"/> which would then call the action method, passing in the parameter (assume it's an Integer): @ManagedBean @SessionScoped public class MyBean { ... public String myAction(Integer myParameter) { // do something return null; } ... } This works on Glassfish v3 perfectly. However not on Tomcat, you get an ELException notifying of the parse error Caused by: javax.el.ELException: Error Parsing: ... Now, there's a documented way of making this work using EL 2.2 and Glassfish's implementation by

The RUNNING.txt that comes with tomcat distribution indicates the use of CATALINA_BASE variable to enable multiple tomcat instance. But how can I set the CATALINA_BASE environment variable for each tomcat instance directory? Having multiple Tomcat instances on your development machine is great. Here's how I usually do it for Windows (the important parts for setup are in steps 2, 3, 4 and 5): Install a copy of Tomcat 6 to a directory (like C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20 ). Copy the conf directory to another directory (like C:\tomcat-1 ) Under C:\tomcat-1 , create a bin directory In the C:\tomcat-1\bin

I was trying to find out the difference between Apache Tomcat variables - CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS in SO and surprised to see that there is no question/answer posted here yet. So I thought of sharing it here (with answer) after finding out the difference. Check the answer/difference below. NOTE: At the time of this posting, we're running Apache Tomcat v6.0.10 with JDK 6u32 on CentOS5 64-bit arch. There are two environment variables - CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS - which are both used in the catalina.sh startup and shutdown script for Tomcat. They are described in comments within that file as

In my webapp, I created a service that is using an ExecutorService with fixed size ThreadPool. I reuse the same ExecutorService during the whole application lifetime. private static ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(8); All is running in Tomcat which gives me the following error while shuting down: appears to have started a thread named [pool-1-thread-1] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak. I do realize I need to shutdown the ExecutorService before shuting tomcat down. Soms SO thread already speak about this but I could not find a clean way