If you're using Resin for the first time, this section will show you how to install Resin, start it, and deploy your application.

Many sites can modify the resin.properties and use the standard resin.xml for configuration of their servers, JVMs, clusters, and applications. More complicated sites can modify the resin.xml itself. The xml configuration file resin.xml supports CDI custom services, EL expressions and variables variables, imports and control structures.

Resin 4.0 introduced a number of new features and capabilities over earlier versions of Resin. Along with these changes, configuration and some operating semantics changed. Certain configuration was deprecated and should be removed or rewritten using newer constructs.

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.

Starting with version 4.0.17 Resin provides extended set of commands that allow administrators and programmers perform debugging and monitoring tasks on remote Resin server using command line.

All Resin users should familiarize themselves with the thread dump, profile, and heap capabilities.

Starting with version 4.0.26 Resin provides REST interface. Simple and secure, it can be used for integration with services such as RightScale® and others.

Resin provides a robust and tested connection pool that is used to obtain connections to databases.

Resin's deployment capabilities include clustered deployment, remote deployment, versioning and rollback, command-line deployment, browser deployment, and standard webapps directory filesystem deployment.

Resin includes a powerful and configurable system for monitoring application server health and graphing performance metrics.

Resin can perform access logging, specify where JDK logging interface messages go, and redirect the stderr and stdout for your applications.

Resin's ScheduledTask capability lets you schedule events using a flexible cron-style trigger. The task can be any java.lang.Runnable bean, a method specified by EL, or a URL.

Resin comes with powerful and extensible rewrite capabilities that is as powerful as Apache's mod_rewrite.

Description and configuration of Resin's high-performance HTTP web server.

Resin organizes resources and classloaders into nested environments. Each environment context merges its own configuration with configuration inherited from the parent environment. Each environment context: server, host, web-app, etc. may be configured with any of the environment configuration tags.

JMX Consoles provide access to both the MBean's that Resin publishes for information about and control of the Resin server and Application specific MBeans.