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Moreover,
SpringSource tc Server provides centralized management and monitoring
of an organizations Tomcat server farm from a single console view.
This includes the ability to define Tomcat server groups and
deploy/start/stop/un-deploy applications individually or across a
server group, as well as to start and stop the Tomcat servers
themselves. Tomcat server configuration allows control of the complete
operations lifecycle of the Tomcat servers from a single console.
"Many enterprise customers demand robust operational management and
diagnostic capabilities before considering the adoption of open-source
application server alternatives," said Kirk Knoernschild, analyst with
Burton Group. "Until now, failing to provide these capabilities has
limited adoption of open-source application servers in the enterprise."
SpringSource tc Server provides advanced diagnostics, such as
deadlock detection and incremental tracing, delivering rapid problem
identification and troubleshooting. These diagnostics, upon the
occurrence of a failure, capture tracing, dump and thread information
from the servers for swift diagnosis, isolation and repair of runtime
issues, the company said.
Meanwhile, SpringSource has considerable Tomcat expertise in that
many of the active committers for Apache Tomcat are SpringSource
employees. In fact, SpringSource employees are responsible for 80
percent of the commits to Apache Tomcat in the past two years and most
Tomcat problem incidents are resolved by SpringSource long before they
reach the community forums, resulting in a 97 percent renewal rate for
Tomcat support. This is largely due to SpringSources acquisition of
Covalent in January of 2008.
Indeed, Jim Jagielski, chief open source officer and principal
software engineer at SpringSource, demonstrated the SpringSource tc
Server during the keynote. Jagielski was formerly CTO of Covalent
before SpringSource acquired it. And he is the director and chairman of
the Apache Software Foundation. Jagielski not only knows Tomcat very
well as a core contributor to that project, but he also helped build
the original Apache Web Server.
SpringSource provides enterprise-level support for tc Server with
mission-critical, production service level agreements (SLAs), Johnson
said. SpringSource is able to offer this high level of service because
of its deep Tomcat experience. For enterprise customers, this minimizes
application downtime and increases the return on investment (ROI) for
Web applications deployed on tc Server, he said.
Jagielski said the SpringSource tc Server is built for and certified
on all leading operating systems, 32- and 64-bit chip architectures, as
well as multiple versions of Java and Java Virtual Machine vendors.
SpringSource tc Server will be generally available in January 2009, he
added. For more information please visit www.springsource.com/product/suite/tcserver.
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