systemd tomcat script for Linux EL7

2015-06-04 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi all, I am trying to put together a systemd script for an install of the current binary release tomcat7. Follows my current best effort, cobbled together from the (RH)EL7 packaged version and some googling... I am trying to use the unadulterated tomcat up/down scripts from the binary release.

RE: Tomcat 7.0.54 Slow Unpack and Deploy

2014-07-23 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Process explorer, select columns, Process I/O, delta total bytes might show the story. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Christopher Schultz wrote: - -1 CPU +1 I/O

RE: Logging makes a grown man cry

2013-12-04 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Alec: "That seems like a good solution. Are you able to avoid having a single giant catalina.out file in $CATALINA_HOME/logs?" No, we find we can live with that but we try to minimise writes to stdout etc. From Chris's note it seems like the ideal solution for us would be 1. server log4j isolat

RE: Logging makes a grown man cry

2013-12-04 Thread Dale Ogilvie
>> Dale wrote: >> We found issues with trying to have log4j in catalina/lib. >> >> That said, it would be nice to use log4j for tomcat, however we found >> that the two configurations collided in our slf4j setup. >You can do this if you put log4j.jar into a server-only ClassLoader. >That's not c

RE: Logging makes a grown man cry

2013-12-03 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Currently we use tomcat configured as out-of-the-box for logging (no log4j) and log4j.jar and config in the app war file. We found issues with trying to have log4j in catalina/lib. That said, it would be nice to use log4j for tomcat, however we found that the two configurations collided in our sl

RE: Logging Best Practices on RHEL

2013-11-27 Thread Dale Ogilvie
We chose slf4j with log4j underneath. 1. slf4j has nice optimal syntax: Log.debug("The logged in user is {} {}",firstName,lastName); http://www.slf4j.org/faq.html#logging_performance 2. It has bridging apis to route other logging frameworks. If you are using other libraries which use a different

RE: Fix your web application so it can cleanly un-deploy and re-deploy - how?

2013-11-07 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] wrote: >In short, if there is something the Tomcat developers can do to help then we >would love to do so - just let us know. Many thanks Mark, I'll definitely take careful notes next time I look at this and report back. Dale

RE: Fix your web application so it can cleanly un-deploy and re-deploy - how?

2013-11-06 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Martin Gainty wrote: >How did Mattias Jiderhamn's library help? It resolved one of the memory leaks, which allowed me to progress on to the next leak :-( Dale

Fix your web application so it can cleanly un-deploy and re-deploy - how?

2013-11-06 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Chris made the following good suggestion in another thread: "Can I make a suggestion? Fix your web application so it can cleanly un-deploy and re-deploy and then simply do a hot deployment?" I've been down this track with our own Spring web apps and found it to be quite a deep rabbit hole where

Buggy java native call kills tomcat

2013-04-03 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi all, Saw this recently... Some java native code included in our tomcat deployment contained an error, which caused a JVM segfault when a webapp called the routine. I was startled by the fact that this native code error brought down the entire tomcat instance (all 15+ web apps) due to a f

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-28 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >Not quite. My point was the loading of the EL implementation is likely to be >triggered by user code. If the webapp class loader is the TCCL loader than >classes from the web app will be loaded before those from the >contai

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-21 Thread Dale Ogilvie
>-Original Message- >From: Pid * [mailto:p...@pidster.com] > >Where is that dependency JSP jar from? >It should not be in WEB-INF/lib if it's providing JSP functionality. > > >p The manifest for the jar says "JSP 2.1 Jasper implementation from Glassfish", and yeah it was bad practice for

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-20 Thread Dale Ogilvie
So, I ran with JVM option "-verbose:class" Then I requested a jsp from app1 and the console printed: ... [Loaded javax.el.ExpressionFactory from file:/C:/apache-tomcat-7.0.27/lib/el-api.jar] [Loaded org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspApplicationContextImpl from file:/C:/sandpit-28/.metadata/.plugins/

RE: tomcat and DB oracle problem - only in higher versions

2012-08-20 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Does this help? https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=279238

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] >The above shows the problem (along with several other classes loaded from that location). >Looks like you have some hard-coded links to the local file system buried inside the webapp's META-INF entries -

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Mark Eggers [mailto:its_toas...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 13 August 2012 5:46 p.m. To: users@tomcat.apache.org >Dale, > >Are you running this under Eclipse (looks like it)? If so, what happens when you run the same test outside of Eclipse? > >/mde/ Well, the Clas

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-12 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Daniel Mikusa [mailto:dmik...@vmware.com] >Maybe try adding the JVM option "-verbose:class" to "bin/setenv.sh". This >option will cause the JVM to log when a class is loaded and from where it was >loaded. >Dan The following class load output excerpt results wh

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-09 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com] >1. Tomcat 7.0.26 and earlier has static field JspApplicationContextImpl.ExpressionFactory, so the EL implementation is effectively shared between web applications. Thanks for that info about the earlier bug in 7

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-09 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 8:22 p.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl >> Dale Ogilvie

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-08 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2012 7:44 p.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl >>Dale Ogilvie wrote: >&g

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-07 Thread Dale Ogilvie
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >Again, that class is not a Tomcat class. As far as I can tell, that is party >of Jetty's JSP/EL implementation. >Anyway, if you start adding JARs from one container into another then all >sorts of things can and will go w

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-06 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Daniel Mikusa [mailto:dmik...@vmware.com] wrote: >You would be using a shared class loader if you are placing JAR files used by >multiple deployed web applications into the >$CATALINA_BASE/lib or $CATALINA_HOME/lib directory. Are you placing any JAR >files into those folders? We have placed

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-05 Thread Dale Ogilvie
>They are. However, if you have classes in a shared classloader used by both webapps, and such a class is coded badly, references can leak from one webapp to another. > >BTW, jcifs.http.NtlmHttpFilter hasn't been viable for some years (no possibility of supporting NTLMv2), so you might want to use

RE: ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-05 Thread Dale Ogilvie
2012/8/3 Dale Ogilvie : > Hi, > > I'm seeing this problem below appearing now with one of our web-apps, google has not helped me so far... There have been no changes with the web app in question, which was working, so I'm picking something is going on with either the tomcat

ClassCastException org.apache.jasper.runtime.ELContextImpl cannot be cast to org.apache.jasper.el.ELContextImpl

2012-08-02 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi, I'm seeing this problem below appearing now with one of our web-apps, google has not helped me so far... There have been no changes with the web app in question, which was working, so I'm picking something is going on with either the tomcat or OS (virtualized) environment, but what? Any tip

RE: 7.0.25 to 7.0.27 requires -Xmx32m to go to -Xmx512m

2012-04-15 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Just a thought from someone who knows nothing more than the contents of this thread about the issue. Would it make sense to only cache classes within a jar? i.e. empty the cache when moving on to scan the next jar? Possibly one might get enough performance benefit from intra-jar class hierarch

RE: Tomcat Classloader leaks

2012-03-21 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Mark Thomas wrote: >Your rant would be better aimed at the developers of the third party libraries and JVMs that create the problems in the first place rather than at the community that has worked hard to: >- prevent them causing an issue in the first place [1], [2] >- cleans up the mess they leav

Tomcat Classloader leaks

2012-03-20 Thread Dale Ogilvie
In our webapps running on Tomcat 7 we have seen quite a number of classloader memory leaks. The end result is that after a number of application reloads and redeploys, we run out of permanent generation memory and Tomcat stops responding. We can see the evidence of this sort of issue thanks to the

RE: How to configure certificate file (*.cer) in Tomcat 6

2012-02-01 Thread Dale Ogilvie
FYI, Here's how we did it with APR for local workstation SSL. Download APR from here: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi Copy the files (openssl.exe and tc-native.dll) into the tomcat bin directory Set up your SSL connector, pointing to your CA signed server SSLCertificateFile and the

RE: Tomcat proxy configuration for serverside http requests

2011-12-12 Thread Dale Ogilvie
>> André Warnier wrote: >> Just to complete your report : >> - is the JVM used in both cases exactly the same ? >> - are either one of the Tomcats (or both) using the "native APR" library ? >> (although I have no idea really if this is relevant or not when a >> webapp makes its own connections)

Tomcat proxy configuration for serverside http requests

2011-12-11 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi, Weird issue, perhaps someone can explain how this might be happening from a tomcat perspective... I have some CXF generated web service client code that calls a web service that operates on an IP whitelist. If I run this code from the shell as the tomcat owner user "apache_tomcat" on th

RE: Tomcat OOM errors..

2011-11-03 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Permgen memory leaks can cause those permgen OOM. One common cause is webapps not cleaning up after themselves on context shutdown. This leaks every loaded class from the webapp into the permgen whenever the application is unloaded. Knowing this one can workaround these leaks by being careful wit

RE: How to close all connections in a Tomcat container db connection pool?

2011-05-11 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Thanks Chris. Not as simple as I'd hoped, about as complicated as I expected :-) -Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2011 1:56 a.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to close all connections in a Tomcat container

How to close all connections in a Tomcat container db connection pool?

2011-05-10 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi, We just had an issue in production on tomcat 6, a web application was getting strange errors from the oracle database: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called in Package Our configuration uses a database pool in GlobalNamingResources of server.xml

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-14 Thread Dale Ogilvie
December 2010 12:00 p.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart On 14/12/2010 22:35, Dale Ogilvie wrote: > > We'll investigate the leak issue, there /are/ leaks from Spring active > mq code. Mind posting the leak warning from the logs? p &

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-14 Thread Dale Ogilvie
start -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave, On 12/14/2010 4:56 PM, Dale Ogilvie wrote: > Redeployment that first caused the issue was using manager web-app. We > tried other deployment options after that. > > OS is RHEL5.x > > Aha, scanning the logs around the

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-14 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Subject: Re: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart 2010/12/14 Dale Ogilvie : > > The thing is that the code is working fine now, without the fully > qualified jndi-name. IIRC, Spring adds a prefix to the name before doing the lookup (as seen from the logs fragment). How do you per

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-14 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Thanks for that clarification. -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2010 11:23 p.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart On 13/12/2010 22:52, Dale Ogilvie wrote: > > propsFileName

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
--- Original Message ---- From: Dale Ogilvie To: Tomcat Users List Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 2:52:09 PM Subject: RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart propsFileName is the name of the bean, which should be initialized with the string value from the JNDI entry "propertiesFileName"

RE: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
.web.context.ContextLoader -Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2010 9:46 a.m. To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale, On 12/

RE: How to configure JNDI resource

2010-12-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
This is how we do it in a spring app, with a resourcelink in context.xml conf/server.xml META-INF/context.xml WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml -Original Message- From: Abid Hussain [mailto:dilax.huss...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2010 5:

jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-13 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi there, Apologies if my previous email ended up linked to another thread. A JNDI lookup started failing mysteriously, and rather than shrug shoulders I'd prefer to nail down what went wrong, if possible. We are using a spring jndi-lookup to pull the name of a context file from the global "envir

jndi-lookup fails, cured by tomcat restart

2010-12-12 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi there, We are using a spring jndi-lookup to pull the name of a context file from the global "environment" in our apps. We have set this up in tomcat 6.0.29 like so: $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml This has worked fine for lots of applications, but last week it started failing for one applic

RE: Tomcat5.5: Apache Tomcat Native library ... not found

2010-10-03 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Perhaps the INFO message needs to sound less alarming? It sounds like it is describing a quality bug to me, akin to running tomcat in "development" mode if you are not using APR. If the missing library is not really required for production use, how about: INFO: The optional Apache Tomcat Native

RE: APR & Tomcat...

2010-07-19 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Reasons to use httpd being what? We historically have used httpd and mod_proxy_ajp, but less being more I'm considering a tomcat only setup. The reason we used httpd in the past was "httpd serves static content better". One other reason that comes to mind is httpd url rewrite support, assuming

RE: Keeping tomcat up-to-date on linux

2010-05-20 Thread Dale Ogilvie
My intent is purely to find the best solution for an up-to-date tomcat on linux. If we have to pay for an up-to-date tomcat on linux we will. Indeed we would prefer to roll up the cost for up-to-date tomcat in our current commercial distro fees. >From responses it seems: 1. that there is no

RE: Keeping tomcat up-to-date on linux

2010-05-20 Thread Dale Ogilvie
* We are serious about our tomcat install, and find configuration file and jvm tweaks about all we need to do. * Agreed that most distro's (apart from the rolling release ones such as gentoo, arch) are lagging behind. This is the problem in my view. * I would rather delegate the responsibility for

RE: Keeping tomcat up-to-date on linux

2010-05-19 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Yes, the release gap is an issue for me as well. Hence this email trail :-) Parallelism is achieved for us for other software by package updating the test/dev server and testing that prior to performing the same updates on prod. There is no need for us to have two versions of tomcat running on t

RE: Keeping tomcat up-to-date on linux

2010-05-19 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hassan Schroeder wrote: > I watch this list for announcements of new releases and install them :-) I'm hoping for something a bit more distro managed. Presumably your method means you have to maintain your own init.d scripts and use the "tar xzvf" method of installation, outside of your distro pa

Keeping tomcat up-to-date on linux

2010-05-19 Thread Dale Ogilvie
Hi, The current release is 6.0.26, March 2010. RHEL5.x is running with Tomcat 5.5. Fedora 12 is on 6.0.20, June 2009 vintage. Ubuntu 10.04 is on 6.0.24 from Jan 2010. Ideally, the equivalent of a "yum update" would track tomcat releases so that soon after a tomcat release the tomcat6 package