pre load Webapp before deploying to tomcat

Hi, i have a rather large webapp with spring and hibernate which takes some time to startup (30 seconds) when i redeploy this webapp the application is not available for 30 seconds until everything is loaded. I looked at "hot deployment" but this is only about not restarting tomcat, but tomca

Tomcat Ajp Connector with Apache Frontend and mod_deflate

Hi, i am trying to build a cluster of tomcats with mod_proxy_balancer. At the moment my tomcats are connected via mod_proxy_http protocol port 80 tomcat uses compression and mod_proxy_balancer is doing fine with sending the compressed content to the client. I wonder if i can do the same with mo

tomcat5.5 Debian Startup Script

Hi, i have some problems with the debian (4.0) startup script and after googeling a day about named pipes and so on, i hope some guru can help me with it. I know its not directly tomcat related, but as it relates to tomcat5.5 debian package i hope i am allowed to ask on this list. this is part

APR not working

TOMCAT: 6.0.13 OS: linux-2.6.18-4-686 JAVA: java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.10 i tried to run with APR, followed http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/apr.html ./configure && make && make install worked fine starting tomcat with CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -server -Djava.library.