One Pool to Rule Them All…in tomcat

I am developing a system that gets deployed as a bunch of separate webapps but all in the same tomcat instance. Not long ago, we opened up production for a lot more users, which quickly led to some resource exhaustion-primarily on the database backend. In other words, … we were beating oracle to death.
After some [...]

June 13, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Programming  No Comments

Importance of URL Input Encoding and How To Set It

A while ago, we had a problem with international characters being mangled on parameters from an URL, which at the end made us uncover, that we had just relied on defaults for the setting of URL Input Encoding. And that can be a problem.
What URL Input Encoding Is
When a HTTP GET or POST request arrive [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments