Customer Rating:  
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: In a nutshell, I got more out of the docs available on apache.org.
I read the first 4 or 5 chapters, and then even skipped ahead to the chapter on debugging, to see if a later chapter might leave a better impression... To no avail...
I found myself so frustrated by the lack of depth and, most importantly, lack of examples and poor writing, that I gave up on it.
I simply cannot recommend this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good into to Ant
Comment: Chapters 2,5 and 7 were worth the price, as I managed to get Ant up and running, a timely digression as our Tomcat experiment evolves into a real production environment. I would suggest downloading the source, rather than trying to follow the authors' instructions on setting up your development environment (if you followed their directions, you would put your web directory under bible\tomcat\hello).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Worth The Paper
Comment: This is one of those typical "re-hash the existing documentation" books. In my own opinion it's poorly written and never attempts to explain. Well, maybe it *does* attempt to explain but it fails miserably. You might as well read the equally bad documentation that comes with Tomcat.
Of course, like so many rotten books, it adds bulk by including pages on so many non-Tomcat issues like Ant, Struts, SOAP, IDEs, etc. I kept expecting a recipe for Tuna Casserole on the next page.
I have this book but I'm getting rid of it. I made the mistake of buying it after reading a review (probably written by one of the authors) here on Amazon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book, excellent reference...
Comment: This is definitely a good book to have... I recommend it! It is a true *complete* reference to Tomcat. Pretty much all you need to know about Tomcat you can find in this book. In a nutshell, a useful book that I am constantly referencing... it is pretty comprehensive...ceo
Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent tutorial and reference
Comment: It is always a wonderful thing to find an excellent technical reference that is also highly *readable* - the enthusiasm of the authors for the subject is obvious to the reader and their pragmatic approach most welcome. Regardless of if you are an experienced developer or beginner, I believe you will find a wealth of information in this book to justify the purchase. (I found the sections on how tomcat manages classloading and security of particular interest). I believe that if your primary development and deployment platform is tomcat then this book will be of great use. Although this book is somewhat Windows centric, those of us who use real operating systems (i.e. Unix based derivatives) will still find real value from this book. The authors obviously have deep experience with the platform and
I can only highly recommend this book to anyone working with Tomcat
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