Pro Jakarta Tomcat 5

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Summary: Caffeinated introduction to Jakarta
Review: This is a rocket ride of code and configuration to get you right through a walkthrough of Jakarta from soup to nuts. There is little exposition and the work is fairly short. If you know what you are doing and you are looking for a complete walkthrough then this is your book. If you are looking for a reference then this is not it.

Rating:
Summary: compatible with Microsoft
Review: Tomcat continues to aggressively improve. Moodie explains the latest version, which reflects considerable donated coding effort by its worldwide base of developers.

The book shows how even if you are running a Microsoft server, you can deploy Tomcat. A chapter on its connectors carefully goes into why you might want to use Microsoft's IIS web server and hook this to Tomcat, where here Tomcat has the role of the container for servlets and JSPs. While many Tomcat fans use it on linux or unix machines, Moodie describes how pragmatically, Tomcat can be easily installed and function well under Microsoft.

It is probably also a sign of the dangers of intrusions like malware that the book also has a very extensive explanation of user authentication and security. (The times we live in.) Vital if you are deploying Tomcat in a commercial venture.