How dumb am I being by not using an Executor with a named thread pool? Currently I just have a Connector in server.xml:
<Connector port="8080" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" /> Assuming ~2000 simultaneous connections. Tomcat 7.0.42. RHEL6. Best, John