Book description
- Tomcat is the official reference implementation of Sun's servlet
and JSP specifications, and Java developers must test all Web
applications on Tomcat to ensure they work as designed
- Boasting more than 40 percent new and updated material, this book
covers all the major new features affecting server administration
and management
- Explores the additional built-in tools of Tomcat, which help Java
developers program more efficiently, and looks at how Apache's other
open source servlet/JSP technologies are designed to work with Tomcat
- Features full coverage of Release 6, which supports the latest JSP
and servlet specifications: JSP 2. 1 and Servlets 2. 5
- Addresses solving real-world problems encountered during all
phases of server administration, including managing class loaders
and connectors, security, shared hosting and clustering, and system testing
Vivek Chopra
has more than 13 years of experience as a software architect,
developer, and team lead and has worked in a number of Silicon Valley
companies and startups. He writes actively on technology and is the
author of more than half a dozen books on Java, open source software,
XML, and Web services. Vivek has pending patents on Web service
technologies, and has been a Java Community Process (JCP) member for the
past three years. He also serves on the expert group for JSR 280 (XML
API for Java ME).
Sing Li (who was bitten by the microcomputer bug in the late
1970s) has grown up with the Microprocessor Age. His first personal
computer was a do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF with 256 bytes of
memory, mail-ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronics
magazine. A 20-year industry veteran, Sing is a system developer, open
source software contributor, and freelance writer specializing in Java
technology, and embedded and distributed systems architecture. He
regularly writes for several popular technical journals and e-zines,
and is the creator of the “Internet Global Phone,” one of the very
first Internet phones available. He has authored and co-authored a
number of books across diverse technical disciplines including
Geronimo, Tomcat, JSP, servlets, XML, Jini, media streaming, device
drivers, and JXTA.
Jeff Genender has over 18 years of software architecture, team
lead, and development experience in multiple industries. Jeff is an
active committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for
Apache Geronimo, and a committer on OpenTerracotta, OpenEJB,
ServiceMix, and Mojo (Maven plugins). Jeff also serves as a member of
the Java Community Process (JCP) expert group for JSR-313 (Java
Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 [Java EE 6] Specification) as a
representative of the Apache Software Foundation. Jeff is an open
source evangelist and has successfully brought open source development
efforts, initiatives, and success stories into a number of Global 2000
companies, saving these organizations millions in licensing costs.
