Best Practices while Using Tomcat

Below article will help you understand the Top best practices that are in use while utilizing Tomcat

Best Practice 1:

Installation of Tomcat is pretty straight-forward but a point to note is to use a suitable path (the %CATALINA_HOME% that we set on the environment variables) which do not contain white spaces.
Reason to honor this practice is that it might cause issues when you try starting Tomcat as a Web Server.

Best Practice 2:

Tomcat should never be run as a PRIVILEGED user on any operating system (root on UNIX/LINUX, or Local System on Windows), it should be run as a low privilege user ONLY.
Ideally, it should be run as a user created only for the purpose of running only one application.

Best Practice 3:

It is a considered a good practice not to load any libraries/packages other than the standard ones that are distributed along with Tomcat using the Commons loader.
Can cause loads of compatibility issues on a longer run.
If there is a need that you need to share a single jar/library amongst several other applications, it is a good idea to create a “shared/lib” or a “shared/classes” directory and configure under the SHARED Loader in the properties.

Best Practice 4:

Place your JDBC drivers as a shared library.
These should be directly placed under the %CATALINA_HOME%/lib folder only.

Best Practice 5:

If you’re finding yourself configuring CLASSPATH rather frequently, then we suggest you rethink your development process.
It is suggested to use Tomcat, which is recommended by Apache.

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Best Practices while Using Tomcat

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Below article will help you understand the Top best practices that are in use while utilizing Tomcat Installation of Tomcat is pretty straight-forward but a point to note is to use a suitable path (the %CATALINA_HOME% that we set on the environment variables) which do not contain white spaces. Reason to honor this practice is that it might cause issues when you try starting Tomcat as a Web Server.

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Krishna Bonda

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