Looking to improve the Apache Tomcat package for Ubuntu (News - Alert) and Debian, MuleSoft, a Web Middleware Company, has partnered with Canonical. According to the company, the new improvements will provide 'out-of-the-box' usability of Tomcat.
Apache Tomcat is the world's most widely used web application server, with over one million downloads per month and over 70 percent penetration in the enterprise datacenter. Tomcat has grown in popularity with application developers due to its lightweight simplicity.
Enhancements made to the Tomcat packages in Debian and Ubuntu include making the authbind a standard method for binding Tomcat to ports lower than 1024; the Debian Tomcat 6 package is now up to date with the latest stable release of Tomcat, 6.0.24; reliable restarts are now implemented in the init script; and the security manager now defaults to the disabled state.
"Part of our core mission at MuleSoft is to continue driving innovation in open source and to make life easier for users of Tomcat, however they access it,' said Jason Brittain, MuleSoft software architect and co-author of Tomcat: the Definitive Guide. 'About half of all the people who run Tomcat in a server environment get it through a Linux distribution, so many of the world's Tomcat users will benefit from these improvements."
With millions of users on the desktop and server, Ubuntu has become the fastest growing Linux distribution in the world since its launch in October 2004. Built by a worldwide team of expert developers, Ubuntu brings together the world's best free and open source software and contains a number of important applications, including a web browser, office suite, media applications, instant messaging and more.
In February 2010, the company launched Cloudcat, which makes the Apache Tomcat Web application server available as a cloud-based service. Available on the the Amazon Web Services (News - Alert) and GoGrid cloud platforms, Cloudcat is a virtual image for developers and quality assurance persons to build and test connected Web applications in the cloud, MuleSoft said.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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