catalina properties file to speed up Tomcat (>= 7.0.29) startup with Grails Applications

catalina.properties

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# List of comma-separated packages that start with or equal this string
# will cause a security exception to be thrown when
# passed to checkPackageAccess unless the
# corresponding RuntimePermission ("accessClassInPackage."+package) has
# been granted.
package.access=sun.,org.apache.catalina.,org.apache.coyote.,org.apache.tomcat.,org.apache.jasper.
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# List of comma-separated packages that start with or equal this string
# will cause a security exception to be thrown when
# passed to checkPackageDefinition unless the
# corresponding RuntimePermission ("defineClassInPackage."+package) has
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# by default, no packages are restricted for definition, and none of
# the class loaders supplied with the JDK call checkPackageDefinition.
#
package.definition=sun.,java.,org.apache.catalina.,org.apache.coyote.,org.apache.tomcat.,org.apache.jasper.

#
#
# List of comma-separated paths defining the contents of the "common"
# classloader. Prefixes should be used to define what is the repository type.
# Path may be relative to the CATALINA_HOME or CATALINA_BASE path or absolute.
# If left as blank,the JVM system loader will be used as Catalina's "common"
# loader.
# Examples:
#     "foo": Add this folder as a class repository
#     "foo/*.jar": Add all the JARs of the specified folder as class
#                  repositories
#     "foo/bar.jar": Add bar.jar as a class repository
common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar

#
# List of comma-separated paths defining the contents of the "server"
# classloader. Prefixes should be used to define what is the repository type.
# Path may be relative to the CATALINA_HOME or CATALINA_BASE path or absolute.
# If left as blank, the "common" loader will be used as Catalina's "server"
# loader.
# Examples:
#     "foo": Add this folder as a class repository
#     "foo/*.jar": Add all the JARs of the specified folder as class
#                  repositories
#     "foo/bar.jar": Add bar.jar as a class repository
server.loader=

#
# List of comma-separated paths defining the contents of the "shared"
# classloader. Prefixes should be used to define what is the repository type.
# Path may be relative to the CATALINA_BASE path or absolute. If left as blank,
# the "common" loader will be used as Catalina's "shared" loader.
# Examples:
#     "foo": Add this folder as a class repository
#     "foo/*.jar": Add all the JARs of the specified folder as class
#                  repositories
#     "foo/bar.jar": Add bar.jar as a class repository
# Please note that for single jars, e.g. bar.jar, you need the URL form
# starting with file:.
shared.loader=

# List of JAR files that should not be scanned for configuration information
# such as web fragments, TLD files etc. It must be a comma separated list of
# JAR file names.
# The JARs listed below include:
# - Tomcat Bootstrap JARs
# - Tomcat API JARs
# - Catalina JARs
# - Jasper JARs
# - Tomcat JARs
# - Common non-Tomcat JARs
# - Sun JDK JARs
# - Apple JDK JARs
tomcat.util.scan.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip=\
bootstrap.jar,commons-daemon.jar,tomcat-juli.jar,\
annotations-api.jar,el-api.jar,jsp-api.jar,servlet-api.jar,\
catalina.jar,catalina-ant.jar,catalina-ha.jar,catalina-tribes.jar,\
jasper.jar,jasper-el.jar,ecj-*.jar,\
tomcat-api.jar,tomcat-util.jar,tomcat-coyote.jar,tomcat-dbcp.jar,\
tomcat-jni.jar,tomcat-spdy.jar,\
tomcat-i18n-en.jar,tomcat-i18n-es.jar,tomcat-i18n-fr.jar,tomcat-i18n-ja.jar,\
tomcat-juli-adapters.jar,catalina-jmx-remote.jar,catalina-ws.jar,\
tomcat-jdbc.jar,\
commons-beanutils*.jar,commons-codec*.jar,commons-collections*.jar,\
commons-dbcp*.jar,commons-digester*.jar,commons-fileupload*.jar,\
commons-httpclient*.jar,commons-io*.jar,commons-lang*.jar,commons-logging*.jar,\
commons-math*.jar,commons-pool*.jar,\
jstl.jar,\
geronimo-spec-jaxrpc*.jar,wsdl4j*.jar,\
ant.jar,ant-junit*.jar,aspectj*.jar,jmx.jar,h2*.jar,hibernate*.jar,httpclient*.jar,\
jmx-tools.jar,jta*.jar,log4j*.jar,mail*.jar,slf4j*.jar,\
xercesImpl.jar,xmlParserAPIs.jar,xml-apis.jar,\
dnsns.jar,ldapsec.jar,localedata.jar,sunjce_provider.jar,sunmscapi.jar,\
sunpkcs11.jar,jhall.jar,tools.jar,\
sunec.jar,zipfs.jar,\
apple_provider.jar,AppleScriptEngine.jar,CoreAudio.jar,dns_sd.jar,\
j3daudio.jar,j3dcore.jar,j3dutils.jar,jai_core.jar,jai_codec.jar,\
mlibwrapper_jai.jar,MRJToolkit.jar,vecmath.jar,\
junit.jar,junit-*.jar,ant-launcher.jar,\
activation-*.jar,amqp-client-*.jar,\
antlr-*.jar,aopalliance-*.jar,asm-*.jar,aspectj*.jar,cglib-*.jar,\
concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-*.jar,dom4j-*.jar,ehcache-core-*.jar,\
grails-*.jar,groovy-all-*.jar,gson-*.jar,h2-*.jar,hibernate-*.jar,\
itext-*.jar,javamelody-core-*.jar,javassist-*.jar,jcl-over-slf4j-*.jar,\
joda-time-*.jar,jrobin-*.jar,jstl-*.jar,jta-*.jar,jul-to-slf4j-*.jar,\
liquibase-core-*.jar,log4j-*.jar,mail-*.jar,mysql-connector-java-*.jar,\
oro-*.jar,paypal_base*.jar,sitemesh-*.jar,slf4j-*.jar,spring-*.jar,\
svnkit-*.jar,validation-api-*.jar,xpp3_min-*.jar,yuicompressor-*.jar

#
# String cache configuration.
tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.byte.enabled=true
#tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.char.enabled=true
#tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.trainThreshold=500000
#tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.cacheSize=5000

Ho @domix,

I found your catalina.properties file this morning. Its helps me a lot, but, my tomcat continues slowly on its deploy.

After some searches, I found this property for Tomcat's context.xml:

From 145.890 ms to 12.035 ms to complete startup (here, based on my 6 apps).

Thanks for your conf file. If you want, here is my config file:

https://gist.github.com/carlosjrcabello/ecdb31581185023ce552

@carlosspohr : please fix the link to your config file

@domix: can this be used with Java applications too?