Stardust/Knowledge Base/Deployment/Tomcat

Tomcat Deployment Options

• RAD on Tomcat - Stardust can be deployed on Tomcat from inside Eclipse as a dynamic web project. This setup is also called the rapid application development (RAD) environment. Please see the tutorials in the product documentation and this article for details.

Other options include to

• build a WAR file, e. g. using Maven or Ant
  
• manually export a Stardust dynamic web project from Eclipse into a WAR file

Tomcat Configuration

Memory Settings

On a standalone server start Tomcat using:

set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:<font style="color:black; background-color:Lime;">MaxPermSize=128m 
catalina.bat run

Remote Debugging

To enable remote debugging on Tomcat start the server using

JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
JPDA_ADDRESS=8787
set JPDA_SUSPEND=y 

catalina.bat jpda run

External Links

• Top Ten Tomcat Configuration Tips - a bit old but still useful collection of Tomcat configuration tips including: "Configuring the Admin Web Application", "Configuring Basic Authentication" and "Restricting Access to Specific Hosts"