Web Application Deployment - Tomcat Overview

Web Application Deployment module A651

Tomcat Overview

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module A651. This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

Programs need an environment in which to run within a host computer. Sometimes the operating system is sufficient to provide the environment, but at other times a more sophisticated container is needed. Tomcat is a container that's used to provide an environment for Java code running on a web server.

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3997	Servlet v JSP (Java Server Page). What is the difference? A servlet is a web program that generates output (normally HTML) and returns it to a browser. A JSP (Java Server Page) is a page of HTML ... with some extra bits of code where programatic elements are added as it's returned to the browser So on the surface, it looks like there's a fundamental difference. ...	2013-02-07
2077	Why put Apache httpd in front of Apache Tomcat Does it seem odd to you that Apache Tomcat is a web server ... and yet the majority of sites run with another web server - Apache httpd - in front of it. Why do they do it? There's a whole host of reasons! They including better logging, load balancing, security, speed of serving static pages such as ...	2010-06-23
2753	You do not just fly - that is just part of the journey Q - "Where did you go on holiday last year?" A - "Spain" Q - "How did you get to where you were going?" A - "We flew" A converstion I have often held with delegates on our "Tomcat Course" ... and I go on to point out that they didn't JUST fly - there were all sorts of other transportations involved ...	2010-05-06
2186	An FAQ on the Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat web servers, and on using them together Both Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat are popular web servers - and most people who use Tomcat 'front' it with httpd. We run an Apache httpd course (under Linux / Unix) and also a combined httpd and Tomcat course so we're very familiar with those "Frequently Asked Questions" that everyone wants to have ...	2009-05-17 (longest)
2016	Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat miscellany When you start a newly installed Apache httpd web server, you may get the following message: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName It's only a warning! It means that the web server software can't work out what the computer is called; ...	2009-01-30
1941	Server - Service - Engine - Host, Tomcat A Tomcat Server can run one or more Services. Each Service comprises a number of Connectors and an Engine, which contains one or more Hosts. You connect to a Tomcat Server via an appropriate connector, which defines the port number, the protocol, and various other connection parameters, and within the ...	2008-12-15
1771	More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java Here are some more diagrams "off the wall" from last week - showing "howto" and "whatis" information for Tomcat, Java and MySQL Some Tomcat and Java Fundamentals On the right of the board ... the main java programs ... • the Java compiler is called javac • the Java Virtual machins is in a ...	2008-08-24 (longest)
576	Why run two different web servers You wouldn't choose to use a Ford Ka as your car for that holiday of a lifetime travelling across Europe, neither would you choose a Jaguar as your idea car for the school run. Yet both of them are perfectly good models of car. Indeed as a family, you might have one of each. Apache httpd and Apache ...	2008-05-04
1265	Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta, httpd, web server - what are they? If someone says "Apache" to me, that's a warning - a warning to listen very carefully to what they're saying and evaluate what they mean; the term has changed - been used (and abused) over the years and it would be so easy to talk to someone, or train someone, on the wrong product. The original Apache ...	2008-02-23
659	Web Application Components When putting a web resource together, we want to keep what each individual user needs on his computer simple - REAL simple - which means that all the work and the complexity needs to be at the server side. I'm running a deployment course that started yesterday and it's only when I started to think "what ...	2006-06-05

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Topics covered in this module

What is Tomcat?.
Apache.
Jakarta.
Tomcat.
Catalina.
Coyote.
Jasper.
The structure of Tomcat.

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