resin 4.0 reference

Starting Resin

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

Command Line - Command line arguments to the Resin server

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

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

pomegranate - The Pomegranate module system

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 - Overview of Resin configuration

CanDI - XML configuration for Dependency Injection services

EL - EL expressions used in configuration

Database

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

Logging

Configuration for java.util and HTTP access logging including rollover.

Overview - Logging configuration

HTTP

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

Virtual Hosts - HTTP Virtual Host configuration for multi-host sites

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

Security

Overview - Overview of security concepts

Clustering

Overview - Overview of Resin's triad-based clustering architecture

Configuration - Configuration for Resi clustering

Load Balancing - HTTP load balancing to a Resin cluster

resin-admin

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.

console - The web-based Resin administration console

Advanced

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

classloaders - Resin classloader architecture

jmx - JMX management