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Tomcat 5 Unleashed

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This book should be about Tomcat 5 with some supporting examples that are related to configuring and running Tomcat. It is not the case here. There are pages and pages of complete JSP implementations, quite detailed explanation about implementing MVC controller for example, JAAS (good thing but more useful for EJB's; I'd rather read something about JDBC authentication that is used in servlets, but there is none about it here), or a lot of other approaches to JSP and servlets (with full code spanning several pages). Great thing. But what about Tomcat? Oh, yeah, and .... "you run all these great things with Tomcat". That's pretty much it. This is a book about JSP development and not even a bit about Tomcat. I already know JSP and the reason Im buying this book because I need to know about.....Tomcat! The book should also cover Tomcat 5.5. Not a word inside about 5.5 (hardly anything about 5.0!) So, do not waste money on this book. Get APRES's Pro Jakarta Tomcat 5 by Matthew Moodie if you wanna know anything about Tomcat 5.0 AND 5.5 (both covered with examples given for both, and some JSP code ONLY to help you understand how Tomcat works!)

If you program Java servlets and JSPs, chances are good that you are using Tomcat. It provides a very well debugged container for your applications. Here, Moczar walks you through version 5, the very latest.

He takes a lot of the mystery about what J2EE is, if you decide to use Tomcat to hold J2EE applications. He illustrates with a very common 3 tier architecture - client, middle and back tiers. Most crucially, with the middle tier being subdivided into a presentation layer, controller, business logic and a lowest layer that talks to the back tier. A lot of the book essentially fleshes out how Tomcat acts as a container to hold that middle tier. Plus, within that tier, how JSPs and servlets can be used to make each layer. Of course, there are many details. But if you keep the overall framework clear in your mind, then you should have no problem following his narrative.

The last part of the book is more suited for Tomcat sysadmins. Programmers usually will not need much material from this section.

After a useful chapter 1 "Quickstart", the text plunges quickly into mind-boggling complexity, including lengthy initial "Security basics", philosophic "Overview of JEE application development", "Web application principles", "Web application design", and a do-it-my-way "Setting up a development environment" chapters. Do we have to have Ant and MySQL installation at the start? Finally, chapters 9 and 10 are helpful for those who either persevered or skipped ahead.

Publishers should require better writing skills from their authors and "cut-the-crap".

There are quite a few Tomcat books. This is, easily, the best I found so far. Since Tomcat is the servlet container of choice at our shop, I ordered every book I could find on Tomcat.

Basically, Lajos Moczar writes with a lot of passion about best practices. And, they happen to be opinions that I mostly agree with and enforce!

This is a great introduction - very clear, very easy to read! My goal was to configure already installed tomcat for a new domain in a very short period of time. This is the second book I tried to read on Tomcat - and in contrast with the first one (I spent 3 hours on one chapter because it just did not sink in), this is very easy to udnerstand for a beginner.

This book does not only go into how to do something, it also explains "why," so you can begin to understand the basic principles of Tomcat set up and quickly catch on.

I took a while to study the books about the Tomcat server and finally settled on this one. When I got into it, it was better than I thought it would be. If you want to learn how to work with Tomcat 5 (there's also good information on Tomcat 4), this is the one. It takes a pragmatic and practical approach and covers every topic you need to implement a production Tomcat server. I have no criticisms of this book and no regrets for having ordered it.

writer uses very close reader relationship approach and book reading flows like butter,

it creates a nice context alongside to make learning of tomcat less dry and more realistic

good job