• Improve Tomcat 9 Performance

    Overview Some of our clients have noticed that upgrading to Tomcat 9 has brought about sluggish performance. In particular, looking at the server’s task manager, it appears that there is a “heart beat” of CPU spiking every few seconds, up to 100%. This occurs even if the m-Power use is…

  • Hiding Tomcat Version Information

    Certain customers may want to hide which version of Tomcat they are using, either for privacy or security reasons. This techblog post details how to do so. Implementation Now instead of seeing this error: The error will now look like this:

  • Implementing SSL on Tomcat

    Overview At some point, you may wish to add SSL (HTTPS) security to your production Tomcat. If so, you may follow these high level steps that are outlined in this tech blog post. Steps 1. Create Keystore Run the following command from a CMD prompt on your m-Power server: Follow…

  • Using the m-Power Embedded Database

    As developers create applications in m-Power, metadata (data about their applications) are stored in a database. Since 2013, new installs of m-Power store this data in an embedded derby database that is installed on the m-Power server. Prior to 2013, this information was stored on the m-Power database to which…

  • Configuring and Using the Full Text Search Template

    The Full Text Search application allows end users to quickly filter across all columns within a given web application. Additionally, to help with the performance of these applications, all data queried is first loaded onto the m-Power server via the SOLR engine. This process is called indexing and is required….