Tomcat server: URI encoding UTF-8

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

Enable GZIP compression in tomcat

Parallel Deployment with Tomcat 7

Increasing Permgen size in your Server

How to Rotate Tomcat catalina.out

http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-rotate-tomcat-catalinaout