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

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

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

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

reference

Complete reference documentation