MySQL™ and JSP™ Web Applications: Data-Driven Programming Using Tomcat and MySQL

Chapter 18. Security, Load Balancing, Failover, and Other Considerations

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Security, Part 1

• Integrating with Apache

• Load Balancing

• Writing Applications for Multimachine Service

• The Failover Fallacy

• Database Tuning

• Security, Part 2 (SSL)

• The End of the Book

Getting your site up and running, code-wise, is usually only 3/4 of the battle. Just because you can make it jump through hoops on your local workstation doesn't mean that it's going to make the grade when you deploy it on your big Sun 9999 MegaServer at your hosting facility.

This chapter is about all the other tasks that you end up having to think about when you deploy a Web site: security, performance, and reliability.

Some of this is better left to an expert. If you're going to need ...