Mastering Tomcat Development

by Ian McFarland and Peter Harrison

Learn how to use Tomcat to quickly build more sophisticated Web applications This comprehensive introduction to developing complex Web applications using Tomcat and related Apache Jakarta technologies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471237647
• ISBN13: 9780471237648
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Don't get the e-book

I love this book and have really learned a lot from it. I am a noob at tomcat and servlet programming but this book has really gotten me up to speed. However, I just wanted to say to get the real paper book rather than the e-book. Downloading the e-book leaves you with a ton of restrictions as to what you can and can't do with the book. For instance if I want to print out a chapter to read on the road - you can't. Your only allowed, I believe, 2 40 page prints from the book and then you have to wait 1 or 2 weeks before your allowed to print anything from the book again. Also you can copy anything to the clipboard with is more than a paragraph. This is a real drag for a book with a lot of code in it where you'd like to copy and paste code to netbeans or such. You can wait a week or two until your allowed to copy or print again - but the whole purpose of a book like this is to get up to speed with development (i think) and waiting around to copy code or print a chapter to read is frustrating and silly. You pay the same price for the e-book that you do for the paper book - the difference is that you actually OWN the paper book - the e-book you don't have the right to do anything with even though you payed $31 for it.

Hats off to "Mastering Tomcat Development"

In the past year I have read a fair amount of Tomcat documentation, as well as the odd book on the topic. Tomcat is not simple - one must commit to understanding it, as it manifests its own view of the world. This book is what one needs to grok what Tomcat is and how it does what it does. It is far and away, hands-down, the best book I have read to date on the subject - no contest. The authors write intelligently, insightfully, to the point, and without the distracting (publishers: are you listening?) spate of vapid jokes that characterize so many works that pass for technical books these days.I couldn't put this book down, I was so impressed by its quality of writing and relevance to what I wanted to know about Tomcat.This book can safely and heartily be recommended to a friend.

Rich coverage

I was suprised by the rich, detailed coverage of Tomcat in this book. Even though I use Tomcat every day I now realize there was alot I didn't understand about it. Just learning how to use Tomcat's request dumper valve for debugging was worth the price of the book. I've already saved myself countless hours of work.This book is well written and is more than the title suggests--it is really a mini course on Java web development using Tomcat and other cutting edge Jakarta tools. The focus is always on vital concepts and practical techniques that you can put to use every day. The authors do a great job of describing how to integrate Struts, Ant, and other tools with Tomcat to basically create a Java web development environment.The Tomcat 4.1 coverage is also excellent. I haven't found one 4.1 feature that isn't explained in this book (and better than the docs). Great!

Fantastic Tomcat 4.1

Finally a great Tomcat book for us programmers! This book does a fantastic job of explaining how to install and configure Tomcat for a variety of OSs and HTTP servers. There were a lot of changes to the Manager Application in Tomcat 4.1, and this book does a great job covering them.The information about configuring Realms, especially the Memory and JDBC Realms, is excellent. The 20 pages on security configuration, the Security Manager, and secure webapp development are among the best I've seen. The chapters on server.xml and web.xml are insightful, and the short references in the back of the book provide info not found in the docs. Concise, useful, not repetitive. I'm ecstatic that someone finally took the Mac seriously enough to give it equal time in the examples to!Most important, this book recognizes that Tomcat is not used in a vacuum. There are way too many examples to list here, but overall the book does a great job of showing you how to work Tomcat into your complete Java web app development process, and how other Apache tools work in union with Tomcat to give you a complete open source solution.Most the code examples are pretty short (there are a few more complex apps toward the back of the book) but manage to be realistic, practical, and useful. The authors struck a nice balance here. Also excellent exmaples for connection pools, JDBC, and DAOs. Kudos to the authors! I have faith in computer books again.