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kjkoster
27-07-2008, 11:42
Dear All,

First of all, thank you for visiting and joining this forum. We're only up for a week or two and already I have picked up a lot of new things from you.

So far, I have posted things blog-style. There are links that I found and short opinion pieces. However, my intention when I opened this forum was not to open a blog for myself (I have one already (http://kjkoster.org/)). I want to provide a platform for everyone to ask questions and post findings about Java and monitoring and systems tuning. I hope that you feel free to start your own threads, not only to post insightful comments and material, but also to ask questions and seek help with the more tricky parts of keeping Java applications running smoothly.

Please tell me: what kind of discussion do you expect to find here? Exclusively Java-specific, or more general too? For example, would tuning and administering the Apache http server be on-topic or off-topic in your view? How about UNIX level tuning?

The forum is now ad-free. Would you prefer it to stay that way? Would you mind seeing some advertisements? Google ads is pretty good at getting relevant material onto your screens.

What is keeping you from posting your own material, or asking your own questions here?

Kees Jan

Kees de Kooter
28-07-2008, 09:50
Kees Jan,

Yet one more (hopefully) insightful comment ;-)

1.

Tomcat (or any other app server for that matter) usually does not run in isolation. It is typically hosted on a *nix system and running behind an apache webserver or loadbalancer.

So in order to succesfully deploy an application you should have a grasp of the whole stack. I would like to include the parts of the runtime ecosystem that the java application depends on in this forum.

On the other hand I guess we should keep a clear focus. As much as I would like to discuss all of the exotic configuration aspects of apache httpd I think in this forum we should stick to issues related to java app deployments.

2.
I would not mind ads on this forum.

3.
I promise you the moment I stumble upon issues that fit in this forum I will post them.

cheers,
Kees