Production configuration in Tomcat

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In a production environment it is recommended you configure Tomcat 5.5 for optimal performance.

The following is an example on how to configure the JSP servlet in Tomcats /conf/web.xml to not check for changes in JSP files and compile them for performance in stead of ease of debugging.

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>fork</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>development</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>genStrAsCharArray</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>classdebuginfo</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

We also recommend for production environments to configure the default servlet in Tomcat as follows:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>debug</param-name>
        <param-value>0</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>listings</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

See also

  1. Tomcat server xml
  2. Apache Tomcat Jasper 2 JSP Engine How To
  3. PermGen settings
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