Customer Rating:  
Summary: room for improvement
Comment: Chap 3: Deploying servlet and JSP Web Applications in Tomcat.
Writing a book about a servlet container whose app deployment methods have most users puzzeled is a challenge. I dont think this book does any better than the online docs (which are bad).
Chap 4: Tomcat performance tuning.
Capacity planning, now thats one area where my knowledge general and tomcatwise is a little thin - the chapter only list the topics but provide no hints or answers. Could have been interesting but wasted my time.
Chap 6: Tomcat security.
Locking down with java policy file, unix chroot and bsd chroot, request filter - wellwritten and very usefull.
Chap 7: Config files and their elements:
Hmm a new way to run the server on lower 1024 ports without root user - why present this now and not in chap 6? A few details from previous chapters repeated - dont the authors two talk together?
Chap 8: Debugging and troubleshooting:
Only the obvious things - too thin.
All in all i found the chapter on security and clustering usefull but the book as a hole seems to lack a clear structure/vision and some chapters dosent do more for me than the lousy online docs. Configuring tomcat is not easy and this book dosent help much. Never the less i like working with tomcat! :)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Definitely not for advanced users
Comment: This book is for beginners who are not familiar with Tomcat. Or, for users who are just learning how to use it. But not for advanced users.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very easy to understand and tells you stuff you need to know
Comment: I'm just getting into JSP/Servlet via Tomcat 4. I found this book very easy to read and understand. I was actually reading through the book at the bookstore. It was exactly what I was looking for as a person with limited UNIX and J2EE experience.
The book clearly tells you what you need to do and tells you how to confirm that something is working. Of greatest interest to me was how Tomcat would be implemented. The book listed the 4 ways to integrate Tomcat with an existing Apache server running in addition to running Tomcat as a stand-alone HTTP server. The book is sensitive to readers that may be running Tomcat on several platforms other than UNIX and XP. I found this book to be informative. I highly recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good thorugh reference for all aspects of tomcat admin
Comment: First note that this book is for tomcat 4, not 5. Hopefully there will soon be an up to date version of this book available.
Note also that this book is from an administrator's perspective, not a developer's. You won't learn how to write custom tag libs from reading this.
Note also that if you are new to tomcat, and just want to get the thing running, there is sufficient on line documentation to do this at the jakarta site. Don't spend money on this book unless you want a solid administration reference.
That being said, it is an great reference to all aspects of tomcat administration. Every element of every configuration file is explained. Also, there is an excellent chapter on tomcat security.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy to Understand
Comment: I found this easy to understand and comprehensive. Instructions are easy to follow. You can get started in less than 10 minutes. The first chapter covers the installation in almost all operating systems where Java is available, which is good especially if you are not using the mainstream OS's.Most material can probably be found in Tomcat's website itself, but this book still has good value for money. You might also want to look at Wrox' "Professional Apache Tomcat", which is equally good. For advanced users, you might want to check "How TOmcat Works" (download sample chapters from the publisher's site first because as I said this is not for beginners) that covers beyond configuration and administration.
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