SpringSource Launches Apache Tomcat Expert Series

Worldwide Seminars to Provide Lessons from the Experts on Optimizing and Managing Tomcat in Production

SAN MATEO, Calif.—December 17, 2008 – SpringSource, a leader in Spring and Apache Tomcat technologies, today announced it will host nine international seminars to provide operations staff, engineers and developers expert advice on how to optimize and manage Apache Tomcat in production.

The SpringSource Tomcat Expert Seminar Series will take place as follows:

Munich, January 19, 2009

Paris, January 20, 2009

Amsterdam, January 21, 2009

London, January 22, 2009

New York, January 28, 2009

Washington, DC, January 29, 2009

Chicago, February 3, 2009

Dallas, February 4, 2009

San Francisco, February 5, 2009

Apache Tomcat is the world's most popular application server. According to a recent Evans Data research study, nearly 70 percent of respondents reported that Tomcat is in production within their organizations.

SpringSource is the leading Apache Tomcat support provider.  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.

Seminar presenters will include Filip Hanik, a senior software engineer for SpringSource and a key committer to Apache Tomcat.  Seminar topics include:

•    Large-scale Tomcat deployments

•    Performance tuning Tomcat

•    Troubleshooting Tomcat in production environments

•    Enterprise capabilities for Tomcat

•    Mitigating risk using Tomcat in mission-critical deployments

Hanik has more than 13 years of experience in architecture, design and development of distributed application frameworks and containers, and is recognized for his system development skills and leadership in open source development projects. He is a leading authority on Tomcat clustering and author of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to Tomcat.

“Our intention with the Apache Tomcat Expert Seminar Series is to bring operation staff, enterprise developers and architects together to learn firsthand about Tomcat in order to maximize the success of their application infrastructure from inception through production,” said Mark Brewer, senior vice president of enterprise delivery for SpringSource. “The recent launch of the SpringSource tc Server further demonstrates our commitment to Tomcat in enterprise deployments.

To register and learn more about the SpringSource Tomcat Expert Seminar Series. Please visit: 

http://www.springsource.com/node/1103

About SpringSource

SpringSource builds Java infrastructure software which eliminates the complexity of enterprise Java. SpringSource created Spring, the de facto standard platform to build, run and manage enterprise Java applications. SpringSource also employs the leading committers for Apache Tomcat and has developed the SpringSource tc Server, which provides powerful Tomcat capabilities along with enterprise class management, diagnostics and support. SpringSource software has been designed from the ground up for complete portability and scalability for today’s data center and for next-generation virtualized, grid and cloud deployments. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many of the world’s leading retail, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit: www.springsource.com.