Temp dir not created using winzip

If you download the tomcat .tar.gz and unpack it using winzip 8.1, the (empty) temp directory is not created and tomcat throws strange error messages. The solution is of course to unpack using gnu gzip and tar (I did not try downloading the tomcat zip file) [just in case somebody else runs into

RMI Server in Tomcat problems

Hi I tried to set up an RMI server in tomcat 4.03 First problem is, there seems to be no possibility to have something in tomcat like weblogics startup classes, i.e. classes that are called at server startup. So I had to trigger a servlet by hand that does the initialisation and registry of

Where goes log() ?

Hello, on loading my servlet throws the exception stated below. Unfortunately this does not give useful information. So I tried to insert System.out.println and log() statements in the init() method, but I could not find the output in any log. Where does it go? Thanks, Juergen 2002-03-27 19:2

High startup and shutdown time of tomcat 4

Hello, jakarta-tomcat-3.3a has a startup time of 4s (jdk 1.4, NT), wheras jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2-LE-jdk14 needs 10s. Shutdown is also much slower. The fast startup/shutdown made tomcat 3 so great for development. Why is it that catalina is so much slower in startup? Can anything be done to make i

winzip, 6.3, bug, breaks, catalina, examples

Hello, jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2-LE-jdk14 examples were not working for me, reason was: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter Finally I hunted it down. There is a bug in winzip 6.3 winzip unzipped the class file as SetCharacterEncodingFilter.cl100644