Tomcat The Definitive Guide

Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
By Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin

Publisher : O'Reilly
Pub Date : June 2003
ISBN : 0-59600-318-8
Pages : 336
Slots : 1



Tomcat: The Definitive Guide offers something for everyone who uses Tomcat. System and network administrators will find detailed instructions on installation, configuration, and maintenance. For users, it supplies insightful information on how to deploy Tomcat. And seasoned enterprise Java developers will have a complete reference to setting up, running, and using this powerful software. The book covers all major platforms, including Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X, contains details on Tomcat configuration files, and even has a quick-start guide to get developers up and running with Java servlets and JavaServer Pages.

Copyright
Preface
What's This Book About?
Why an Entire Book on Tomcat?
Who This Book Is For
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Tomcat
Section 1.1. Installing Tomcat
Section 1.2. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Tomcat
Section 1.3. Automatic Startup
Section 1.4. Testing Your Tomcat Installation
Chapter 2. Configuring Tomcat
Section 2.1. Using the Apache Web Server
Section 2.2. Managing Realms, Roles, and Users
Section 2.3. Controlling Sessions
Section 2.4. Accessing JNDI and JDBC Resources
Section 2.5. Servlet Auto-Reloading
Section 2.6. Relocating the Web Applications Directory
Section 2.7. Customized User Directories
Section 2.8. Tomcat Example Applications
Section 2.9. Server-Side Includes
Section 2.10. Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Section 2.11. The Tomcat Admin Application

Chapter 3. Deploying Servlet and JSP Web Applications in Tomcat
Section 3.1. Layout of a Web Application
Section 3.2. Manual Application Deployment
Section 3.3. Automatic Deployment
Section 3.4. The Manager Application
Section 3.5. Automation with Jakarta Ant

Chapter 4. Tomcat Performance Tuning
Section 4.1. Measuring Web Server Performance
Section 4.2. External Tuning
Section 4.3. Internal Tuning
Section 4.4. Capacity Planning
Section 4.5. Additional Resources

Chapter 5. Integration with Apache Web Server
Section 5.1. Introduction
Section 5.2. The Pros and Cons of Integration
Section 5.3. Installing Apache httpd
Section 5.4. Apache Integration with Tomcat
Section 5.5. Of Connectors and Configuration Files
Section 5.6. Summary

Chapter 6. Tomcat Security
Section 6.1. Introduction
Section 6.2. Securing the System
Section 6.3. Multiple Server Security Models
Section 6.4. Using the -security Option
Section 6.5. Setting Up a Tomcat chroot Jail
Section 6.6. Filtering Bad User Input
Section 6.7. Securing Tomcat with SSL

Chapter 7. Configuration Files and Their Elements
Section 7.1. server.xml
Section 7.2. web.xml
Section 7.3. tomcat-users.xml
Section 7.4. catalina.policy

Chapter 8. Debugging and Troubleshooting
Section 8.1. Reading Log Files
Section 8.2. URLs and the HTTP Conversation
Section 8.3. Debugging with RequestDumperValve
Section 8.4. When Tomcat Won't Shut Down

Chapter 9. Building Tomcat from Source
Section 9.1. Installing Jakarta Ant
Section 9.2. Obtaining the Source
Section 9.3. Downloading Support Libraries
Section 9.4. Building Tomcat

Chapter 10. Tomcat Clustering
Section 10.1. Clustering Terms
Section 10.2. The Communication Sequence of an HTTP Request
Section 10.3. Additional Resources

Chapter 11. Final Words
Section 11.1. Supplemental Resources
Section 11.2. Community

Appendix A. Installing Java
Section A.1. Choosing a Java SDK

Appendix B. JSPs and Servlets
Section B.1. Why Both JSPs and Servlets?
Section B.2. Simplifying JSPs with JavaBeans:Reusable Components
Section B.3. Simplifying Your JSPs with Custom Tags
Section B.4. Extending Tomcat

Appendix C. jbchroot.c
Appendix D. BadInputFilterValve.java
Colophon
Index


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