Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 (Expert's Voice in Java) [Paperback]

Matthew Moodie (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590593316 | ISBN-13: 978-1590593318 | Publication Date: December 15, 2004 | Edition: 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 2nd printing

This book is ideal for Tomcat administrators and folks who want to configure Tomcat. Author Matthew Moodie describes configuration files, as well as administration features like security, auto-deployment, remote deployment, and datasources. Moodie wastes no time on Java or JSP introductions, and only discusses JSP and Java code minimally. Moodie gets right to the point, and teaches you how to use Tomcat.

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About the Author

Matthew Moodie was a technical and development editor for two and a half years, and recently served as Editor for Beginning JSP 2 (1590593391), and Foundations of JSP Design Patterns, both published by Apress.

Product Details

• Paperback: 379 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 2nd printing edition (December 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590593316
• ISBN-13: 978-1590593318
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,177,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only Get if you already have understanding of Tomcat, June 17, 2005

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Donald W. Long (Chandler, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 (Expert's Voice in Java) (Paperback)

This book is mainly a list of params and file structures. It is only for someone that already has admin earlier version of tomcat. If you are looking for a book that will teach you how to admin tomcat 5+ and have never used tomcat or setup tomcat then this is not a good book for you.

I would only recommend this book for a review if you are already a tomcat admin with some experience, else find another book that shows examples and explains tomcat in a more logical manner.

This is another example of a book written by a techy that knows the product but should never publish a book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intermediate to Advanced Offline Reference for Administrators, March 23, 2006

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ws__ (Hamburg, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 (Expert's Voice in Java) (Paperback)

This book covers the installation and the administration of Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 in parallel. It does not cover how to develop web applications.

Most people probably do not want to read this book from cover to cover. It is possible though, but you should be prepared for a rough ride: Simple topics next to advanced topics, high density information with hardly any redundancy adjacent to pages and pages of screen shots. The parallel coverage of the two Tomcat versions just makes the reading through even worse. This book is more an offline reference than an "I read it all" type of book.

The author is competent with moderate skills in explaining things. You certainly should have a solid knowledge of Tomcat, before you pick up this book. You will get rewarded with treatments of topics you will only scarcely find anywhere else: Setting up Tomcat "together" with one of the popular web servers the connector way, or setting up Tomcat in a clustered environment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!, July 6, 2005

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Mr Cool (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 (Expert's Voice in Java) (Paperback)

This is the book you really need if you want to administer or just play with Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 (examples given for both in great detail). This is more a reference book but with detailed explanations and straight to the point (no pages and pages of beating the bushes). You need to have a general (I repeat, general) idea of what Tomcat is for because they don't tell you the super very basics (that's why this book is SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!). If you feel like you don't know what all this is for, scan the official documentation for Tomcat on Jakarta's website, get familiar with some key ideas (that server.xml is for configuring the server, what context is for, etc etc). You don't have to understand all that, just get familiar with it. Then buy this book and you will know what you reading about, how to put things together, etc. This is the book I found to be the only book that actually can be used in real environment (and I don't mean among super geeks, but normal users as well)