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Professional Apache Tomcat 5 (Programmer to Programmer)

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.71376
EAN: 9780764559020
ISBN: 0764559028
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 2004-05-28
Publisher: Wrox
Studio: Wrox
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Summary: Bad book to setup DBCP
Comment: This book gives a speedstart in getting high level architecture of Tomcat 5. Its discussion, even though not comprehensive, can make you can tell the difference between a valve, a service, an instance, and a server.

However, this book fails to provide a tested and consistent example on setting up DBCP (Apache Database Connection Pooling). Seems the information was extracted only from Apache DBCP website and reworded (such as replacing jndi/myoracle to jndi/wroxTC5) WITHOUT giving actual tested examples. I have Tomcat 5.0.28 running and the DBCP example mentioned 3 pages in chapter 8 and another 3 pages in chapter 14 does not work. I went looking for errata in the website but couldnt find it in the publisher's website.

It is rather disappointing and discouraging when you put your trust to a book that in the end gives bad examples.

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Summary: A collection of articles
Comment: This book contains some good information. However, it's clear that the publisher merely solicited a bunch of articles and sort of threw them together without much in the way of an overarching design. The result is that you can find answers to many common Tomcat questions in this book, but others will go unanswered.

I agree with the previous comments that this book has some major gaps in its coverage of the topic. I would also comment that some of the presentation is pretty confusing, such as the whole area of data source configuration, which is actualy covered TWICE. Which section of the book where it's covered are you supposed to follow? And, as it turns out, even though this subtopic is covered twice, they still don't manage to give a complete explanation, leaving out the important issue of setting up a context.xml file.

It's better than not having any Tomcat book at all, but this is not an exceptionally complete or well-organized book.
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Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: Very good book, but I first read it as a preparation to manage a tomcat server and I could barely understand. A re-read it later on and it was a lot clearer.
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Summary: it is worth $25.
Comment: I looked through it in 1 day, from the programmer point of view, what I learned is totally worth I paid for the book, I have a clear overall picture of Tomcat, the components ( server, service, host,contexs),directories,especially the class loaders that helps me develop my web applications.
if you are just a programmer and a looking for some systematic inforation of Tomcat, you just need read 3 or chapters,probably this information is publiclly available in tomcat's offical website. this is why I finished in just 1 day.
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Summary: this is the place to start
Comment: as a beginner to the world of Java, Servlets, and JSP, this provided the best introductory place to begin learning these technologies.

More so than any of the o'reilly books, this volume takes you through the necessary introductory concepts. The examples are simple but not trivial, and present material in a way that can be readily absorbed and reused.

This is not a reference book- I feel comfortable setting it aside now that I have digested the contents. But, having been lost in a maze of other reference volumes from Learning Java (too trivial and slow-paced) to JSP Cookbook (too difficult to start) this provides the healthy, learn-quick but absorb-as-well volume I needed.
  
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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.
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