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Professional Apache Tomcat 6 - Wiley Publishing

Chapter 1 , “Apache Tomcat,” provides an introduction to the Apache and Tomcat projects, their history, and information about the copyright licenses under which they can be used.
Chapter 2 , “Web Applications: Servlets, JSPs, and More,” is a “10,000-foot overview” of Web technologies for administrators unfamiliar with them, including CGI, servlets, JSPs, JSP tag libraries, and MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.
Chapter 3 , “Tomcat Installation,” details the installation of JVM and Tomcat on Windows and Unix/Linux systems, and offers troubleshooting tips.
Chapter 4 , “Tomcat Architecture ,” provides a conceptual background on components of the Tomcat 6 server architecture, including Connectors, Engines, Realms, Valves, Loggers, Hosts, and Contexts.
Chapter 5 , “Basic Tomcat Configuration,” covers the configuration of the Tomcat server components introduced in Chapter 4 .
Chapter 6 , “Advanced Tomcat Features,” details advanced Tomcat configuration topics, such as access log administration, single sign-on across Web applications, request filtering, the Persistent Session Manager, and JavaMail session setup.
Chapter 7 , “Web Application Configuration,” describes the structure of Web applications deployed in Tomcat, and their configurable elements.
Chapter 8 , “Web Application Administration,” explains how these Web applications can be packaged, deployed, undeployed, and, in general, managed. There are three ways to do this in Tomcat: via HTTP commands, via a Web-based GUI, and through Ant scripts. This chapter describes all of them.
Chapter 9 , “Class Loaders,” introduces Java class loaders and discusses their implications for Tomcat, including (but not limited to) security issues.
Chapter 10 , “HTTP Connectors,” describes Tomcat’s internal HTTP protocol stack that enables it to work as a Web server. The chapter covers its configuration, as well as security and performance issues.
Chapter 11 , “Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server,” covers the use of Apache as a Web server frontend for Tomcat using both Apache’s mod_proxy as well as the JK Connector. It also describes load-balancing configurations, as well as SSL setup.
Chapter 12 , “Tomcat and IIS,” provides detailed coverage of the use of IIS as a Web server frontend for Tomcat.
Chapter 13 , “JDBC Connectivity,” discusses JDBC-related issues in Tomcat, such as connection pooling, JNDI emulation, configuring a data source, and alternative JDBC configurations.
Chapter 14 , “Tomcat Security,” deals with a wide range of security issues, from securing Tomcat installations to configuring security policies for Web applications that run on it.
Chapter 15 , “Shared Tomcat Hosting,” will prove very useful to ISPs and their administrators, as it covers Tomcat installations in virtual hosting situations.
Chapter 16 , “Monitoring and Managing Tomcat with JMX,” explores Tomcat’s Java Management Extension (JMX) support in detail.
Chapter 17 , “Clustering,” covers Tomcat configurations for providing scalability and high availability to Web applications. This is a “must read” chapter for production deployments of Tomcat.
Chapter 18 , “Embedded Tomcat,” details the mechanism for embedding Tomcat within custom applications.
Chapter 19 , “Logging,” covers logging by the Tomcat server and Web applications, and techniques for log file management and log analysis.
Chapter 20 , “Performance Testing,” explains how to develop a performance test plan for Web applications, and how to do performance test using the open-source JMeter framework.
Chapter 21 , “Performance Tuning,” suggests where and how to look for the root cause when faced with specific Tomcat performance issues. This chapter also covers performance tuning tips and best practices for Tomcat 6.

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