Tomcat 7 configuration

tomcat.conf

description "Tomcat Server"

  start on runlevel [2345]
  stop on runlevel [!2345]
  respawn
  respawn limit 10 5

  limit nofile 32000 32000
  console output
  
  script 
    # adapt paths:
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr
    export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.53

    # adapt java options to suit your needs:
    export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms512M -Xmx2048M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC"

    .$CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh
    sudo -E -u ubuntu $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh run
  end script

  # cleanup temp directory after stop
  post-stop script 
    rm -rf $CATALINA_HOME/temp/*
  end script