EJB & JSP: Java On The Edge, Unlimited Edition by Lou Marco ISBN: 0764548026 Your Guide to Cutting-Edge J2EE Programming Techniques. Appendix C: Configuring the Tomcat Web Server This appendix discusses Tomcat and provides advice on how to get the Tomcat release 3.2 Web server. Tomcat is the Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Technologies. In other words, Tomcat is a Web server that implements the most current release of JSP and Java Servlets. The Tomcat Web Server Tomcat is a Web server that contains a JSP container. Tomcat is quick and easy to install and to use, and offers the following advantages: . Tomcat is free. . You can download the source code for Tomcat as well as the binaries. If you really want to learn about server internals, the Tomcat source is a great resource. . Mailing lists about Tomcat are available to one and all. These lists are devoted to disseminating information, including posted questions and answers. Tomcat is designed to work as both a standalone Web server or in conjunction with application servers, such as Apache or JBoss. For your purposes here, it is more interesting to run Tomcat as a standalone Web server because it offers a straightforward way to learn about JSPs. However, in the real world, if you opt to use Tomcat, you may want to integrate Tomcat with another Web application server. Tomcat was, and currently is, developed by a community of dedicated individuals under the umbrella of the Jakarta Project. You are encouraged to learn about the Jakarta Project by taking a look at http://jakarta.apache.org/index.html. From this site, you can get to the page where you can download the Tomcat Web server. As of this writing, the latest release of Tomcat is release 3.2. Note By the time you read this book, it is very likely that the Jakarta folk will have a more recent version of Tomcat available, probably release 4.0. Be advised that the description of Tomcat given here applies to release 3.2. Several details and particulars may change between successive releases. Downloading Tomcat Release 3.2 You can get to the download page for Tomcat from the Jakarta URL or go to http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.html. (If you prefer, you can get to the source code download from here as well.)
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