When we began creating an application using Struts2 framework with Hibernate and MySQL, we ran into a problem which was related to MySQL timing out its connection after a span of 8 hours when left unused. It conceived a lot of time at our end but we were able to nail down the issue at the end. Steps that we had taken to correct the issue related to Hibernate MySql connection timeout problem are listed below - Download Hibernate C3P0 and copy .jar files - Set c3p0.properties - Make changes to hibernate.cfg.xml - Test MySQL connection timeout - Hibernate, MySQL connection timeout related error messages (more…)

Below set of steps involve setting up Tomcat 6 on CentOS 5 with Java 1.6 Download Apache Tomcat $ wget http://apache.parentingamerica.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.36/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.36.tar.gz Go to opt/ folder and extract Tomcat $ cd /opt $ tar -xzf apache-tomcat-6.0.36.tar.gz Create a tomcat user $ useradd -d /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.36/ tomcatuser Change user permission on tomcat folder $ chown -R tomcatuser:tomcatuser apache-tomcat-6.0.36 (more…)

At the time of writing this article Java 6 (update 37) was available at http://www.java.com/en/download/manual_v6.jsp First set up a folder where you want to install java $ cd /opt $ wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u37-b06/jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin $ chmod +x jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin $ ./jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin (more…)

To check the current installation of java $ rpm -qa | grep jre $ rpm -qa | grep jdk $ rpm -qa | grep openjdk To remove the java installs $ yum erase jre jdk openjdk

This error pops up when you try to stop the Tomcat server when the server has not started. If you restart the Tomcat server, the error vanishes.

Main is a static code block and to call a method within the same class you need to declare the other method also as static if you would want to execute the method during run time without instantiating it as an object. Static methods are class methods and the methods without static keyword in them are instance methods.