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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide |
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by Jason Brittain and Ian F. Darwin
Published by O'Reilly Review by Paul Hill These days we all try to save those poor trees and don't just accumulate books as status symbols. I'm sure we all have our own criteria for what to actually get a hardcopy of, but my criteria often includes getting a good reference for something I use all the time, but don't bother which much. I'm always beating on Tomcat; I can drop a war and set reloadable attributes almost as well as anyone, but I have to admit there lots of other features of Tomcat with which I'm not on personal terms. If you are looking for a handy reference to keep around the shop for you and your friends to answer just such infrequent questions, may I humbly suggest the O'Reilly book Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. For those who are reading this without knowing what Tomcat is, it's the Apache Software Foundations Java Servlet Container, aka the thing you give your Java servlet and JSP code to, so that it can be accessed and run over the web. For more information see: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/ Even the first chapter may have something for nearly everyone. Sure we each have an OS we know and probably can survive on another one, but do you really know how to install Tomcat on Linux, Windows, OS X and Solaris? Fret, not; for there are the answers in Chapter one. The rest of the book also contains such such useful sections as pros and cons of Apache integration, Tomcat security and performance and all kinds of discussion of the various configuration files. Sometimes it is a hardcopy that you need to find or remind ourselves what one piece of software calls something, or remind ourselves which file is the right place to define something. Once we find some reference we can (1) read about in that book, and then (2) search about on the internet for further mention of the exact details. So if you need some 'off line memory' to help you recall or learn some of the more obscure details of Tomcat, you would do well to consider this book.
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