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As a former user of Pivotal Tracker (great product), the recent combined branding of Spring/Pivotal had me scratching my head.

This post explains it a bit.

• Install Services (tomcat)
• stackoverflow - gave me a clue on where to look for my situation
• Tomcat Workers Reference
• Running Multiple Tomcat Instances on windows
• Setup multiple instance of tomcat on windows
• previous BowerStudios article on installing tomcat with iis on windows

I ended up installing everything tomcat related to:
C:\tomcat

Under that directory, I have:

• apache-tomcat-6.0.36.win64
• apps
• critical_apps
• isapi

I put all the isapi stuff under the one directory (isapi_redirect.dll, isapi_redirect.properties, uriworkermap.properties, and workers.properties, and it all worked fine. Just be sure to get the paths correct in the rest of the config (follow the BowerStudios guide above to configure isapi).

The apache-tomcat-6.0.36.win64 is just the windows version of tomcat extracted from a zip file. You'll need the the tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe executables in the bin directory

Once you've got those two things done, create your additional instances (mine are apps and critical_apps, with basically empty directories save the conf directory. The guides above will help for seeing what to put in them. You'll need to configure the ports for each of the instances, and tweak other bits in the conf directories. Your webapps will go in their respective webapps directories of the instances.

Then in each of the instance directories, I added the following scripts (which are all based off the service.bat script in the bin directory):

install_service.bat: run once to install this instance of tomcat as a service
set CATALINA_BASE=C:\tomcat\apps
set CATALINA_HOME=C:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.36.win64
set "EXECUTABLE=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6.exe"
set SERVICE_NAME=TomcatApps
set TOMCAT_DISPLAY_NAME=Tomcat Apps
set PR_DESCRIPTION=Apps - Apache Tomcat 6.0.36
set "PR_LOGPATH=%CATALINA_BASE%\logs"
set "PR_CLASSPATH=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat-juli.jar;%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\bootstrap.jar"
set "PR_JVM=%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"
set PR_STDOUTPUT=auto
set PR_STDERROR=auto
set PR_INSTALL=%EXECUTABLE%
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6 //IS//%SERVICE_NAME% --DisplayName="%TOMCAT_DISPLAY_NAME%" --Install --Jvm=auto --StartMode=jvm --StopMode=jvm --StartClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StartParams=start --StopClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopParams=stop
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6 //US//%SERVICE_NAME% --JvmOptions "-Dcatalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE%;-Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME%;-Djava.endorsed.dirs=%CATALINA_HOME%\endorsed" --StartMode jvm --StopMode jvm
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6 //US//%SERVICE_NAME% ++JvmOptions "-Xdebug;-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8001,server=y,suspend=n;-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1;-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false;-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false;-Djava.io.tmpdir=%CATALINA_BASE%\temp;-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager;-Djava.util.logging.config.file=%CATALINA_BASE%\conf\logging.properties" --JvmMs 512 --JvmMx 1024
echo The service '%SERVICE_NAME%' has been installed.

remove_service.bat (only run if necessary)
set CATALINA_BASE=D:\tomcat\apps
set CATALINA_HOME=D:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.36.win64
set SERVICE_NAME=TomcatApps
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6 //DS//%SERVICE_NAME%
echo The service '%SERVICE_NAME%' has been removed.

update_service.bat (run as necessary to update attributes of the service through the ui
set CATALINA_BASE=D:\tomcat\apps
set CATALINA_HOME=D:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.36.win64
set SERVICE_NAME=TomcatApps
start %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat6w.exe //ES//%SERVICE_NAME%

It is possible, as noted here on stackoverflow

Hopefully my need for this is only temporary

This can also be applied to grails in your conf/DataSource.groovy (the last line):
hibernate {
cache.use_second_level_cache = true
cache.use_query_cache = false
cache.region.factory_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory'
globally_quoted_identifiers=true
}

I've heard bits about Grouper by the internet2 consortium, and I'll probably check it out in detail sometime. It appears to be a Java app built with svn and maven for managing groups of users.

In my case, it was because I was using the wrong constructor:

I was using:
public HttpHost(final String hostname, int port)

instead of:
public HttpHost(final String hostname, int port, final String scheme)

In my continuing quest to understand and properly use the Linux File System, I've updated the installation location of my java applications (compilers, tools, etc). If you're just doing Groovy development, you may want to look into the gvmtool tool instead as it works quite well. I've held off for now because I want to specify the location of these apps.

An older version of this article goes into greater detail, but doesn't quite use the best file locations. This article should be seen as an update/addition to the previous.

User Installed apps should be installed to /usr/local/lib. I've created symlinks to track the current version that I'm using. I've then installed symlinks in /usr/local/bin to the appropriate executable in /usr/local/lib

Here's a copy of /etc/environment:
#SDKS/COMPILERS
GROOVY_HOME="/usr/local/lib/groovy"
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64"
SCALA_HOME="/usr/local/lib/scala"
#
#APPS
GROOVYSERV_HOME="/usr/local/lib/groovyserv"
LIQUIBASE_HOME="/usr/local/lib/liquibase"
JASYPT_HOME="/usr/local/lib/jasypt"
#
#BUILD TOOLS
ANT_HOME="/usr/local/lib/ant"
GRADLE_HOME="/usr/local/lib/gradle"
MAVEN_HOME="/usr/local/lib/maven"
#
#FRAMEWORKS
GRAILS_HOME="/usr/local/lib/grails"
GRIFFON_HOME="/usr/local/lib/griffon"
#
#PATH (See also .bashrc)
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/lib/groovy/bin:/usr/local/lib/jasypt/bin:/usr/local/lib/scala/bin"


Note that I've added groovy, jasypt, and scala to the path as they have a number of executables with them. Java does as well, but we're letting the os package manager manage it.

/usr/local/bin should then look like this:
22:06:27 daniel@defiant:/usr/local/bin $ ll
drwxr-xr-x 3 daniel daniel 4.0K Feb 26 22:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:39 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Feb 26 15:28 apacheDirectoryStudio -> ../lib/apacheDirectoryStudio/ApacheDirectoryStudio*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 26 16:41 clipcomrade -> ../lib/clipcomrade/clipcomrade.sh*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 26 15:32 datacleaner -> ../lib/DataCleaner/datacleaner.sh*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 26 16:16 ggts -> ../lib/ggts/GGTS*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36 Feb 26 22:03 grails*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38 Feb 26 22:03 griffon*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 26 15:26 groovyclient -> ../lib/groovyserv/bin/groovyclient*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 26 15:26 groovyserver -> ../lib/groovyserv/bin/groovyserver*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 26 15:36 hermes -> ../lib/HermesJMS/bin/hermes.sh*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 15:31 ireport -> ../lib/iReport/bin/ireport*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Feb 26 15:34 java6 -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin/java*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 15:34 liquibase -> ../lib/liquibase/liquibase*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 26 15:39 luke -> ../lib/luke/luke.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44 Feb 26 22:00 squirrelsql*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 20 10:51 sslCertsForJvmManager -> /code/java/bin/sslCertsForJvmManager/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 26 15:44 umlet -> ../lib/umlet/umlet.sh*

The contents of some of the shell scripts ( where symlink wouldn't work due to path issues)
grails: /usr/local/lib/grails/bin/grails $@
griffon: /usr/local/lib/griffon/bin/griffon $@
squirrelsql: /usr/local/lib/squirrel-sql/squirrel-sql.sh

/usr/local/lib looks like this:
22:12:34 daniel@defiant:/usr/local/lib $ ll
drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 4.0K Feb 26 21:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:39 ../
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Dec 18 22:57 android-sdk-linux_x86/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 18 00:54 ant -> apache-ant-1.8.2/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:54 apache-ant-1.8.2/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Sep 18 00:54 apacheDirectoryStudio -> ApacheDirectoryStudio-linux-x86_64-1.5.3.v20100330/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Sep 18 16:20 ApacheDirectoryStudio-linux-x86_64-1.5.3.v20100330/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:54 apache-tomcat-6.0.29/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:54 apache-tomcat-6.0.32/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Dec 12 13:04 apache-tomcat-6.0.36/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 22:01 clipcomrade/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Feb 26 16:48 DataCleaner/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 26 14:39 ggts -> ggts-3.1.0.RELEASE/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Feb 26 21:30 ggts-3.1.0.RELEASE/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 30 22:52 gradle -> gradle-1.4/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 gradle-1.0/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 gradle-1.2/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Dec 15 22:37 gradle-1.3/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Jan 30 22:51 gradle-1.4/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 16 12:05 grails -> grails-2.2.0/
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 grails-1.3.7/
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Oct 19 16:14 grails-2.0.0/
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 grails-2.0.4/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 grails-2.1.1/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Dec 7 23:34 grails-2.1.2/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Jan 16 12:05 grails-2.2.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 18 00:58 griffon -> griffon-1.0.0/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 griffon-1.0.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 18 12:16 groovy -> groovy-2.0.5/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Oct 3 14:28 groovy-1.8.8/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 24 20:56 groovy-2.0.4/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Jan 16 13:02 groovy-2.0.5/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Jan 16 13:02 groovy-2.0.6/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 18 00:58 groovyserv -> groovyserv-0.10/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 groovyserv-0.10/
drwxrwxr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 HermesJMS/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 26 14:40 iReport -> iReport-4.6.0/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 iReport-3.7.1/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 iReport-4.0.0/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:58 iReport-4.6.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 22 12:19 jasypt -> jasypt-1.9.0/
drwx------ 5 root root 4.0K Jan 22 12:18 jasypt-1.9.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 16 21:40 liquibase -> liquibase-2.0.5/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Dec 16 21:45 liquibase-2.0.5/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 21:36 luke/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 18 00:59 maven -> maven-3.0.3/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:59 maven-3.0.3/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 18 00:59 scala -> scala-2.8.0.final/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:59 scala-2.8.0.final/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 26 14:40 squirrel-sql -> squirrel-sql-3.4.0-optional/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 18 00:59 squirrel-sql-3.4.0-optional/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Oct 17 23:03 tcserver -> vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.7.2.RELEASE/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 14 16:28 tomcat -> apache-tomcat-6.0.36/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Feb 26 22:06 umlet/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Oct 17 23:10 vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.7.2.RELEASE/

These additions to /home/user/.bashrc round out the install:
function alert {
notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e 's/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//')"
play -q /home/user/music/aSound.wav
}
#20121012 Java utility aliases
function mvnr {
mvn properties:read-project-properties "$@"
}
function mvn {
echo 'try mvnr if needing project properties?'
$MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn "$@"
alert
}
function gradle {
echo 'try gradled for faster gradle startup as daemon'
$GRADLE_HOME/bin/gradle "$@"
alert
}
function gradled {
$GRADLE_HOME/bin/gradle --daemon "$@"
alert
}
function ant {
$ANT_HOME/bin/ant "$@"
alert
}
I've also written more info on using notifiy-send.

I was configuring a bean, and needed to input an integer. Surprisingly it didn't like this
<entry key="port" value="8888" ></entry>

I needed this:
<entry key="port" value="#{new Integer(8888)}" ></entry>

Thanks to axtavt on stackoverflow.com

You can look at various bits of info (methods and such) about a class by using:
javap MyClass.class

I used this to discover some info about what version of a class had actually made it to production.

I absorbed this tiny little bit from Charles Nutter's presentation at Codemash 2013 during his "JVM Bytecode for Dummies" session

Create the properties object, and load it from the file system:
Properties props = new Properties()
File propsFile = new File('/usr/local/etc/test.properties')
props.load(propsFile.newDataInputStream())

Take a peek:
println props.getProperty('porcupine')

Write a new random value and persist it to the file system:
Integer rand = new Random().next(4)
props.setProperty('porcupine', rand.toString())
props.store(propsFile.newWriter(), null)

Peek again:
props.load(propsFile.newDataInputStream())
println props.getProperty('porcupine')

The java download page is a bit annoying in that they require you to accept a license agreement before you can download the executable. This makes it a bit difficult to download via wget on a headless box.

Luckily, stackoverflow comes to the rescue.