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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide

Errata for Tomcat: The Definitive Guide

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Page 15
table 1-3, rows 1 and 2

NOW READ:

Option Purpose Default
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CATALINA_BASE Sets the base directory where Tomcat will CATALINA_HOME
read and write data at runtime.
CATALINA_HOME This directory is where Tomcat's startup Tomcat installation
scripts find the Tomcat distribution on directory
disk so that Tomcat can dynamically load
its own code.

On page 57, second paragraph:
This means that for multiple instances to work, each Tomcat instance
has to have its own set of these directories -- they cannot be shared.

NOW READS:
This means that for multiple instances to work, each Tomcat instance
has to have its own set of these directories, plus its own shared/classes
and shared/lib directories.

And on page 57:
# mkdir logs temp webapps work

NOW READS:
# mkdir -p logs temp webapps work shared/lib shared/classes

Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
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Page 104
last paragraph

In the phrase, "but it's not quite as fast as Apache at serving static content,"
an extra spaces between "Apache" and "at" HAS BEEN DELETED.

page 122
http://java.oreilly.com/9780596003180

NOW READS:
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596003180

Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
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Page 114
step 1

The url = http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-9780596003180-4.0/release

NOW READS:
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-9780596003180-connectors/jk2/release

page 131
http://www.sans.org/topten.htm

NOW READS:
http://www.sans.org/top20/top10.

page 161
http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl/SkyLined%20v4.2/?Whitepapers has been removed.

Anonymous    Sep 01, 2003
Printed
Page 163
The footprint on that page:

"This step is unnecessary if you are going to self-sign your certification"

NOW READS:
"The following step is unnecessary if you are going to self-sign your certification"

page 213 footnote
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin

NOW READS:
http://sources.redhat.com/software/cygwin

page 228
http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/Xerces-J-bin.2.3.0.tar.gz

NOW READS:
http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/

page 229
ftp://ftp.exolab.org/pub/tyrex/tyrex-1.0/tyrex-1.0.jar

NOW READS:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tyrex/tyrex-1.0.jar

page 274 Table B-1, the header "SQL actions (continued)" HAS BEEN DELETED.

page 277
http://jakarta.apache.org/fop/

NOW READS:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/

page 278
"http://jakarta.apache.org/soap and http://jakarta.apache.org/axis"

NOW READS:
"http://ws.apache.org/soap and http://ws.apache.org/axis"

page 278
http://jakarta.9780596003180.org/struts

NOW READS:
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/

Anonymous    Dec 01, 2003
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Page 206

<%@page taglib="/MyTags" prefix="c" %>

NOW READS:
<%@taglib uri="/MyTags" prefix="c" %>

page 254
http://www.filip.net/9780596003180-clustering.html

NOW READS:
http://cvs.apache.org/~fhanik/index.html

Anonymous    Sep 01, 2003