Tomcat 8 setclasspath, configures grails environment and some performance options

setclasspath.sh

#!/bin/sh

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# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Set JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME if not already set, ensure any provided settings
#  are valid and consistent with the selected start-up options and set up the
#  endorsed directory.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Make sure prerequisite environment variables are set
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a -z "$JRE_HOME" ]; then
  if $darwin; then
    # Bugzilla 54390
    if [ -x '/usr/libexec/java_home' ] ; then
      export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
    # Bugzilla 37284 (reviewed).
    elif [ -d "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home" ]; then
      export JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home"
    fi
  else
    JAVA_PATH=`which java 2>/dev/null`
    if [ "x$JAVA_PATH" != "x" ]; then
      JAVA_PATH=`dirname $JAVA_PATH 2>/dev/null`
      JRE_HOME=`dirname $JAVA_PATH 2>/dev/null`
    fi
    if [ "x$JRE_HOME" = "x" ]; then
      # XXX: Should we try other locations?
      if [ -x /usr/bin/java ]; then
        JRE_HOME=/usr
      fi
    fi
  fi
  if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a -z "$JRE_HOME" ]; then
    echo "Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined"
    echo "At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program"
    exit 1
  fi
fi
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a "$1" = "debug" ]; then
  echo "JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK in order to run in debug mode."
  exit 1
fi
if [ -z "$JRE_HOME" ]; then
  JRE_HOME="$JAVA_HOME"
fi

# If we're running under jdb, we need a full jdk.
if [ "$1" = "debug" ] ; then
  if [ "$os400" = "true" ]; then
    if [ ! -x "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/java -o ! -x "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/javac ]; then
      echo "The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly"
      echo "This environment variable is needed to run this program"
      echo "NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE"
      exit 1
    fi
  else
    if [ ! -x "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/java -o ! -x "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/jdb -o ! -x "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/javac ]; then
      echo "The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly"
      echo "This environment variable is needed to run this program"
      echo "NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE"
      exit 1
    fi
  fi
fi

# Don't override the endorsed dir if the user has set it previously
if [ -z "$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS" ]; then
  # Set the default -Djava.endorsed.dirs argument
  JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="$CATALINA_HOME"/endorsed
fi

# Set standard commands for invoking Java, if not already set.
if [ -z "$_RUNJAVA" ]; then
  _RUNJAVA="$JRE_HOME"/bin/java
fi
if [ "$os400" != "true" ]; then
  if [ -z "$_RUNJDB" ]; then
    _RUNJDB="$JAVA_HOME"/bin/jdb
  fi
fi
#sets grails environment
CATALINA_OPTS="${CATALINA_OPTS} -Dgrails.env=test"
#sets server memory
CATALINA_OPTS="-server -noverify -Xshare:off -Xms1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=1024M -XX:PermSize=256M -XX:+UseParallelGC"
#sets some jvm performance options
CATALINA_OPTS="${CATALINA_OPTS} -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:+EliminateLocks -XX:+UseBiasedLocking"
# optional setting: MaxJavaStackTraceDepth, it reduces performance overhead of long exception stacktraces by limiting their size to 100 stacktrace elements
# You should eliminate all exceptions (even catched) to get good Grails performance
# always use some JVM profiler (for example Yourkit YJP) to see if any exceptions are created during normal program flow
# Grails and Groovy create some exceptions in initializations but after a few requests, no new exceptions should be created.
CATALINA_OPTS="${CATALINA_OPTS} -XX:MaxJavaStackTraceDepth=100"