Summary
Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring,
Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers,
the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0. Johnson also alludes to the SpringSource Application Platform,
which was announced a month after this interview [...]
When it comes to security we always thing about EJB and other Java security related APIs. But web.xml itself provides you BASIC security control over you web application. If your application is not using any EJB and you need a security control, then web.xml is there to help you .
Read the entire article at: http://passion4java.blogspot.com/2009/12/securing-your-application-using-webxml.html
Have you ever seen this when you are starting up tomcat ?
This is because your tomcat installation is not installed with the native apache portable runtime.
Although this is ok in a development environment, its not recomended for production.
In order to have a optimized server with proper scalabillity you should install this on a production [...]