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TITLE
| | Professional Apache Tomcat 5
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 0-7645-5902-8
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Amit Bakore, Ben Galbraith, Chanoch Wiggers, Jon Eaves, Sing Li, Vivek Chopra
| | PUBLISHER
| | Wrox Press Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2004
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 3 and 4 [about levels]
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| SYNOPSIS |
What is this book about?
The Apache Tomcat server and related technologies give Java developers a rich set of tools to quickly build more sophisticated Web applications. Tomcat version 5 supports the latest JSP and Servlet specifications, JSP 2.0, and Servlets 2.4. This completely updated volume offers you a thorough education in Tomcat 5 as well as 4.1.
What does this book cover?
You will learn to solve the problems that arise with installation and configuration, security, system testing, and more. This edition also introduces you to Tomcat clustering for planning and deploying installations in mission-critical production environments, and explores the new support for Tomcat in popular IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans/Sun Java Studio, and JBuilder.
You'll discover how to manage class loaders and Connectors, understand how to use IIS as a Web server front-end for Tomcat, examine JDBC-related issues in Tomcat, and be ready to put this technology to work.
Here are some other things you'll learn from this book:
* Techniques and troubleshooting tips for installing JVM and Tomcat on Windows and UNIX/Linux systems
* Detailed Tomcat configuration, such as Access log administration, Single Sign-on across Web applications, request filtering, the Persistent Session Manager, and JavaMail session setup
* How to resolve JDBC connectivity issues, including connection pooling, JNDI emulation, configuring a data source, and alternative JDBC configurations
* How to use Web servers like Apache and IIS with Tomcat to serve static content
* A wide range of security issues, from securing Tomcat installations to configuring security policies for Web applications that run on them
* How to configure Tomcat for virtual hosting environments
* Procedures for load-testing Web applications deployed in Tomcat using the open source JMeter framework
* How to set up Tomcat clustering to provide scalability and high availability to Web applications
* How to embed Tomcat within custom applications
Who is this book for?
This book is for J2EE system administrators and Java developers with responsibilities for Tomcat configuration, performance tuning, system security, or deployment architecture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Amit Bakore | Amit is a Sun Certified Java Programmer with a couple of other certifications. Currently based in Pune (India), he works as a System Analyst for Sansui Software. He has been working mainly on J2EE and XML on Linux. Before landing in the world of software, he graduated from Pune University, with Electronics as a major. | | Ben Galbraith | Before graduating from high School, Ben Galbraith was hired by a major Silicon Valley computer manufacturer to develop Windows-based client-server applications with international deployments and hundreds of users. In 1995, he began developing for the Web and fell in love with Unix, vi, and Perl. After building countless web applications with Perl, Ben discovered server-side Java in 1999 and his relationship with Perl has since become somewhat estranged. | | Chanoch Wiggers | Chanoch is a Java Programmer working with JSP and Servlets who recently worked at Wrox Press as a Technical Architect. | | Jon Eaves | Jon Eaves is the Chief Technology Officer of ThoughtWorks Australia and has over 15 years of software development experience in a wide variety of application domains and languages. Jon spends his working hours developing large-scale enterprise systems using J2EE, and when he can find spare time developing J2ME/MIDP applications and working on the BouncyCastle Java Cryptographic APIs (http://www.bouncycastle.org). He can be reached at jon@eaves.org. | | Sing Li | First bitten by the computer bug in 1978, Sing has grown up with the microprocessor and the Internet revolution. His first PC was a $99 do-it-yourself COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory and a 1 bit LED display. For two decades Sing has been an active author, consultant, instructor, entrepreneur, and speaker. | | Vivek Chopra | Vivek has eight years of experience in software design and development, the last two years of which have been in web services and various XML technolgoies. He is the co-author of Professional ebXML Foundations and Professional XML Web Services. |
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