resin 4.0 reference

Starting Resin

You can start using Resin by simply expanding the archive, and starting Resin with a Java command line.

Installation - Install Resin on Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X

Command Line «ref» - Command line arguments to the Resin server

Watchdog «ref» - Resin's watchdog process manages Resin servers and checks status for reliability.

Apache HTTPd «ref» - Using Apache HTTPd with Resin

IIS 7 Plugin «ref» - Using Microsoft IIS 7 with Resin

Migrating

Resin 4.0 introduced a number of new features and capabilities over earlier versions of Resin. Along with these changes, configuration and some operating semantics changed. Certain configuration was deprecated and should be removed or rewritten using newer constructs.

Administration

The /resin-admin web-app provides an administration overview of a Resin server. Resin-Pro users can obtain information across the entire cluster, profile a running Resin instance, and obtain thread dumps and heap dumps.

All Resin users should familiarize themselves with the thread dump, profile, and heap capabilities.

web console - The web-based Resin administration console

command line - The Command Line Resin Administration

Clustering

Overview - Overview of Resin's clustering, load-balancing, elastic-computing and distributed caching features

Clustering Tags Reference - Resin clustering and load-balancing tags reference

Clustered Deployment Reference - ANT and Maven clustered deployment API reference

Configuration

Resin uses a tag-based xml configuration file, usually as resin.xml, for declaring all available options. In addition, Resin supports EL variables, expressions and control structures.

Overview «ref» - Overview of Resin configuration

CanDI - XML configuration for Dependency Injection services

EL «ref» - EL expressions used in configuration

Database

Resin provides a robust and tested connection pool that is used to obtain connections to databases.

Deployment

Resin provides a wide variety of custom packaging and deployment options.

.git overview - Overview of the clustered .git deployment

deploy tools - ant and maven deployment tool reference

HTTP

Description and configuration of Resin's high-performance HTTP web server.

HTTP server «ref» - Resin's built-in, high performance HTTP server

Virtual Hosts «ref» - HTTP Virtual Host configuration for multi-host sites

Rewrite «ref» - Resin's URL rewriting capability, replacing mod_rewrited sites

Proxy Cache «ref» - Resin's built-in proxy cache

Health

Resin includes a powerful and configurable system for monitoring application server health and graphing performance metrics.

Health Checking - Health checks, conditions, and remediation actions

Meters - Statistic graphing with meters

Logging

Resin can perform access logging, specify where JDK logging interface messages go, and redirect the stderr and stdout for your applications.

Security

Overview - Overview of security concepts

authenticators - Authenticators for Resin server

authentication method - Authenticators for Resin server

authorization - Authenticators for Resin server

SSL - Integrating OpenSSL and JSSE

Scheduled tasks

Resin's <resin:ScheduledTask> capability lets you schedule events using a flexible cron-style trigger. The task can be any Runnable bean, a method specified by EL, or a URL.

Advanced

Advanced and technical concepts useful for an in-depth understanding of Resin.

classloaders - Resin classloader architecture

jmx - JMX management