Pro Apache Tomcat 6 [Paperback]

Matthew Moodie (Author), Kunal Mittal (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590597850 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597859 | Publication Date: March 23, 2007 | Edition: 1

Every Java-based Web application developed needs to be deployed. Period. The majority of Java-based Web applications are or need to be simple. 60-80% of Java developers only need simple Java Web apps (JSP/Servlets), the largest Java tech market and opportunity. The tool to deploy the majority of these simple Java-based Web applications is the open source Apache Tomcat Web application server.

Tomcat holds a near market share monopoly in the simple Java Web app server space with approximate 85%+ marketshare, followed by Jetty with less than 10% and maybe another or two who hold the remaining market share (Tomcat is NOT like the more complex J2EE/Java EE Web app server like BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Apache Geronimo, etc.).

Pro Apache Tomcat 6 is looking to be first book (if not second to only one other) to hit very large Tomcat tech market where Tomcat book sales of late reflect the anticipation for Tomcat 6 and the fact that nearly all the Tomcat books in market are very dated based on Tomcat 4.x or 5.x. Also, this book wastes no time on Java or JSP introductions, and discusses JSP and Java code minimally, unlike competitors’ books. Instead, it gets right to the point and teaches you to use the newest Tomcat, version 6.

Other than the pending news on Tomcat 6, Tomcat has also graduated from Jakarta to become a topline Apache project, Apache Tomcat. Other Tomcat news is that professional open source companies and organizations are continuing adoption of Apache Tomcat en-mass as part of other product suites and solutions, including JBoss, HP, Novell, IBM, and others.

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About the Author

Kunal Mittal (Ed.) is a consultant specializing in Java technology, the J2EE platform, Web services, and SOA technologies. He has co-authored and contributed to several books on these topics. Kunal is currently working on a BEA Portal project for Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Matthew Moodie has been a Wrox technical and development editor for two and a half years, and recently served as Editor for Beginning JSP 2 and Foundations of JSP Design Patterns, both with Apress, L.P. He authored Pro Jakarta Tomcat 5.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597850
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597859
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,309,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good technical info, poor English (grammar, style)..., August 1, 2007

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Telesphorus (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 6 (Paperback)

I have read this book cover to cover. It contains plenty of useful technical info, I learned a lot, and so I give it 3 stars. Boy, was it tedious reading though! The grammar is broken in many places. The style is rather stiff and tiresome. I do not blame the author though, and I wish the editors and reviewers did better job prior to bringing this work to the public. Yeah, even hackers and software geeks appreciate good writing! In fact, it is quite evident that Chapter 14 "Testing Tomcat's Performance" was written by a different writer than the rest of the book. A breath of fresh air! This chapter reads well, it flows, no grammar problems, no stiff/awkward/stilted style. Nice job on this one. Anyway, the author worked hard. Writing is a tough job, and it is not easy to organize, present and teach technical subjects, I know. But it seems to me that the quality control at Apress is sorely lacking. They might be rushing things to production a little too fast, so it seems. Hope they improve though!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars useles technical info, January 14, 2008

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L. Azuaje Mollegas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 6 (Paperback)

I read this book from cover to cover because I am a tomcat administrator and I need to update from version 5 upto 6. What I got after reading the book is very little.

Most of the technical explanations are very shallow, some address -badly- esoteric/complex issues. The contents within each chapter do not mix well, there is no logic flow when reading the book from chapter to chapter.

The book lacks working examples, the chapter 14 is completely useless, how can you test the tomcat if you can not set up it properly ?

The appendix on MySql is unnecesary, that's not the main bulk of the work for Tomcat administrators.

The book seems to be a rush rewriting from a previous book based on Tomcat 5.5.

I will give a try to: The Professional Apache Tomcat 6 by Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Jeff Genender. I hope this time I won't miss the point.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good technical info?!?, December 22, 2007

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R. Lopez (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Apache Tomcat 6 (Paperback)

I'd wish there would be a way to measurably gauge how far, "for better or worse", books have strayed away from the carelessly lousy online documentation from a purely linguistic point of view.
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This book has almost no actual examples of anything real in its 300 pages. It just the online docs with some Windows specific stuff thrown in, some of it relatively interesting/esoteric like using IIS front ending TC and some other stuff, which to me does not merit space in a TC book, e.g., Securing file system on a OS level, in which the author states (page 219) "Windows gives you much more flexibility when assigning permissions than Unix does" I am still wondering when, if ever, Windows will be able to achieve the level of security that hardened gentoo sports right from a live CD
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Matthew Moodie's book, in addition to the very Windows-centric mindset, also contains quite a bit of bluff and insipid content, sections that appear to have no meat whatsoever like "Transactions and Distributed Transactions Support". I wonder why didn't they just leave this section altogether. It also has many little mistakes that at some point I simply started underlining with my comments next to them:
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page 4: "Tomcat is always the first server to provide the new features of the spex when it is finished" Actually not true, Jetty has been better at that that TC itself
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page 59: author refers to the "commons" branch in TC directory structure while talking about logging listing 4-7 (TC 6 did away with it)
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page 161: "Using Tomcat's connectors"/"The Workers" it should be "CATALINA_BASE1", "CATALINA_BASE2", ...
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Book also seems to be talking more about TC 5.5 than the new features of TC 6.0
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