Re: 20 Tips for Using Tomcat in Production

>Very nice. May i suggest 2 comments perhaps?:
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>6... If you're loading several applications with several of the same
>library dependencies, consider moving them from the applications'
>|WEB-INF/lib| directory to Tomcat's shared library
>|{catalina.home}/shared/lib|. This will reduce the memory used by each
>application and result in smaller WAR files.
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>You should make a remark that this change the behaviour of webapp:
> a) Shared classloader is searched in last ressort when looking for
>classes, according to
>http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html.
> b) Because the classes are shared, they share config & singletons and
>if they store objects statically they will prevent webapp unloading
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>7...Consider JDK 1.5 or even better JDK 1.6 to take advantage of
>performance improvements.
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>Note that you can gain even more performance if you recompile your
>"string concatenation hungry" (d="aaaa"+b+"ccc") support libaries for
>jdk 5+ on a multi CPU system. This is because jdk5 uses the
>non-synchronized stringbuilder instead of the jdk 4- synchronized
>StringBuffer. And synchronization over multiple cpu takes a few more
>cycles than on single CPU machines.
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>En l'instant précis du 21/08/07 14:10, Shane Witbeck s'exprimait en ces
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>>I thought my latest blog post would be of interest to the people on this list:
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>>http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2007/08/18/20-tips-for-using-tomcat-in-production/
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