ISBN: 9788184044041    Publisher: By Jo Walsh, Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle Year of publishing: 2007     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 510        Language: English

It takes a book as versatile as its subject to cover Apache Tomcat, the popular open source Servlet and JSP container and high performance web server. Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is a valuable reference for administrators and webmasters, a useful guide for programmers who want to use Tomcat as their web application server during development or in production and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in Tomcat. Updated for the latest version of Tomcat, this new edition offers a complete guide to installing, configuring, maintaining and securing this servlet container. In fact, with such a wealth of new information, this is essentially a new book rather than a simple revision. You will find details for using Tomcat on all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD, along with specifics on Tomcat configuration files and step-by-step advice for deploying and running web applications. This book offers complete information for: Installation and startup procedures. Configuring Tomcat-including realms, roles, users, servlet sessions and JNDI resources including JDBC Data Sources. Deploying web applications-individual servlets and JSP pages and web application archive files. Tuning Tomcat to measure and improve performance. Integrating Tomcat with Apache Web Server. Securing Tomcat to keep online thugs at bay. Tomcat configuration files-server.xml and web.xml and more. Debugging and Troubleshooting-diagnosing problems with Tomcat or a web application. Compiling your own Tomcat, rather than using the pre-built release. Running two or more Tomcat servlet containers in parallel. This book also offers an overview of the Tomcat open source project's community resources, including docs, mailing lists and more. Community interest fueled a strong demand for a Tomcat guide from O'Reilly. The result clearly exceeds expectations.
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Jason Brittain is a Senior Software Engineer at Symantec Corporation's Network and Gateway Security Solutions Team, working on the AntiSpam product. Jason's specialties include Tomcat, dynamic web development, Java application servers, scalability and fault tolerance, clustering and Apache Ant build systems. He has contributed to many Apache Jakarta projects and has been an active open source software developer for several years. Ian F. Darwin has worked in the computer industry for three decades: with Unix since 1980, Java since 1995 and OpenBSD since 1998. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and is the author of Checking C Programs with Lint, Java Cookbook and over seventy articles and several courses (both university and commercial) on C and Unix. In addition to programming and consulting, Ian teaches Unix, C and Java for Learning Tree International, one of the world's largest technical training companies. He runs BSD UNIX (OpenBSD and/or OS X) on all of his computers, the only Windows he has are made of glass and look out over the countryside north of Toronto.
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