Professional Apache Tomcat 6

Chopra, Vivek, Li, Sing, Genender, Jeff

ISBN 10: 0471753610 / ISBN 13: 9780471753612

Published by Wrox, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Professional Apache Tomcat 6
• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471753610
• ISBN 13: 9780471753612
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

• 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

About the Author

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 $99 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.