Professional Apache Tomcat 5
Chapter One
Apache and Jakarta Tomcat
If you've written any Java Servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSPs), chances are good that you've downloaded
Tomcat. That's because Tomcat is a free, feature-complete Servlet container that developers
of Servlets and JSPs can use to test their code. Tomcat is also Sun Microsystems' reference implementation
of a 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. Sun Microsystems (Sun)
is the creator of the Java programming language and functions as its steward.
However, Tomcat is more than just a test server. Many individuals and corporations are using
Tomcat in production environments because it has proven to be quite stable. Indeed, Tomcat is
considered by many to be a worthy addition to the excellent Apache suite of products of which it
is a member.
Despite Tomcat's popularity, it suffers from a common shortcoming among open source projects:
lack of complete documentation. Some documentation is distributed with Tomcat (mirrored at
/tomcat/), and there's even an open so ... read full excerpt from Professional Apache Tomcat 5 ebook
