Professional Apache Tomcat 6
Chapter One
Apache Tomcat
If you've written any Java servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSPs), chances are good that you've downloaded
Tomcat. That is because Tomcat is a free, feature-complete Servlet container that developers
of servlets and JSPs can use to run their code. Tomcat is used in Sun's reference implementation of
the Servlet Container, which means that Tomcat's first goal is to be 100 percent compliant with the
versions of the Servlet and JSP API specifications that it supports.
However, Tomcat is more than just a test server. Many corporations are using Tomcat in production
environments because it has proven to be quite stable. These corporations range from Fortune
500 companies such as WalMart and General Motors to ISPs hosting multiple small-business
Web sites. Tomcat is used in the real world to run everything from online photo albums (Webshots)
to high performance financial Web applications (ETrade).
A list of Tomcat-powered Web sites is at http://wiki.apa ... read full excerpt from Professional Apache Tomcat 6 ebook