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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide

Errata for Tomcat: The Definitive Guide

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PDF Page 4
Throughout the book

There are multiple references to the Jakarta Site which was recently retired.

2011/12/21 - Jakarta has been retired.

Anonymous  Feb 14, 2012 
Printed Page 52
1st code segment on top of page

The connectionURL attribute has an & instead of a ; before the string "password"
in its value; this is not correct.
Changing it to a value of ; causes the example to work fine.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 52
much of the page

Since the book's printing, the JDBCStore has changed to also include a database
column to hold the app_name. This column name can be configured via the JDBCStore
attribute named sessionAppCol. This was added to allow sessions from different
contexts to store their sessions in different parts of the database so that they
don't try to de-serialize sessions that don't belong to them (which caused
exceptions).

This link describes this parameter:
http://jakarta.apache.org/9780596003180/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/manager.html

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 56
4th paragraph

The book says "the web application's Context element (in web.xml)"
but according to the 9780596003180 docs and the distributed server.xml and
web.xml files, that element goes in the server.xml, not web.xml.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 110
Last code example

There is no whitespace between PATH and URL in the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse
directives. It will not work without whitespace and is confusing.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 184
Table 7.7

docBase and path attribute meanings should be reversed.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 184
Footnote a

Boolean logic of the footnote is completely reversed. Substitute "true" and "false"
for each other in every case.

 Anonymous