This, as befits a first chapter in a book on Tomcat, is a short history of dynamic web content and how Tomcat fits into that history. Once you’ve dealt with that, you’ll learn about Tomcat’s architecture and its modular approach to configuration. The Web isn’t solely made up of static pages that show the same document to every user; many pages contain content generated independently for each viewer. Although static files still have their place, many useful and necessary web sites would be unable to function without dynamic content | THE EXPERT S VOICE IN JAVA TECHNOLOGY Pro Apache Tomcat Effectively deploy Tomcat 6 to maximize your JSP and servlet-based web applications. Matthew Moodie Edited by Kunal Mittal Apress Pro Apache Tomcat 6 Matthew Moodie Edited by Kunal Mittal Apress Pro Apache Tomcat 6 Copyright 2007 by Matthew Moodie All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 pbk 978-1-59059-785-9 ISBN-10 pbk 1-59059-785-0 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the US and other countries. Apress Inc. is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems Inc. and this book was written without endorsement from Sun Microsystems Inc. Lead Editor Steve Anglin Editor Kunal Mittal Technical Reviewer Scott Davis Editorial Board Steve Anglin Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jason Gilmore Jonathan Gennick Jonathan Hassell James Huddleston Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Dominic Shakeshaft Paul Sarknas Jim Sumser Matt Wade Project Manager Beth Christmas Copy Edit Manager Nicole Flores Copy Editor Heather Lang Assistant Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Kelly Gunther Compositor Kinetic Publishing Services LLC Proofreader Elizabeth Berry Indexer Toma Mulligan Artist Kinetic Publishing Services LLC Cover Designer Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 233 Spring Street 6th Floor New York NY 10013.
