June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 52m
English
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Preface
What’s This Book About?
Tomcat is a Java™ servlet container and web server from the Jakarta project of the Apache Software Foundation (http://jakarta.apache.org). A web server is, of course, the program that dishes out web pages in response to requests from a user sitting at a web browser. But web servers aren’t limited to serving up static HTML pages; they can also run programs in response to user requests and return the dynamic results to the user’s browser. This is an aspect of the web that Apache’s Tomcat is very good at because Tomcat provides both Java servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies (in addition to traditional static pages and external CGI programming). The result is that Tomcat is a good choice for use as a web server for many applications. And it’s a very good choice if you want a free, open source (http://opensource.org) servlet and JSP engine. It can be used standalone, but it is often used “behind” traditional web servers such as Apache httpd, with the traditonal server serving static pages and Tomcat serving dynamic servlet and JSP requests.
This book is about how to use Tomcat itself. If you’re looking for detailed information and tutorials about how to write web applications, be sure to read Java Servlet Programming, by Jason Hunter with William Crawford (O’Reilly).
Why an Entire Book on Tomcat?
Can’t you just download and run Tomcat from the Apache Software Foundation’s web site? Well, of course you can, and you’ll need to, but there is a lot ...
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