Apache Tomcat 7 essentials / Tanuj Khare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khare, Tanuj.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Open source : community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apache Tomcat.

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Middleware.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Apache Tomcat seven essentials

Tomcat 7 essentials

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Khare Tanuj: Tanuj Khare has worked as a professional in IT for six+ years. He is involved in Process improvements using ITIL framework and techniques (LEAN and Six sigma). He is MCSA and ITIL certified and has expertise in handling critical production server issues and has a track record of dealing with many complex problems. His quick resolution to issues faced in a production environment helped his team and clients a lot. Tanuj has SME (subject matter expertise) in Tomcat, weblogic, and JBOSS Server Administration. His experience includes working with large enterprise web hosting environment for J2EE container and small teams and his quick turnaround time resulted in on-time delivery. Apart from this, his technical expertise in root cause analysis, problem management, migration of enterprise application, and upgrade of web application servers is commendable. Until now he has done around 100+ enterprise application migrations. He has also done J2EE web and application upgrades and managed environments with 1, 000+ middleware instances. Outside of work life, Tanuj enjoys playing table tennis and exploring new technologies. Tanuj is a good dancer. This is his first book.

Summary:

This book is a step-by-step tutorial for anyone wanting to learn Apache Tomcat 7 from scratch. There are plenty of illustrations and examples to escalate you from a novice to an expert with minimal strain. If you are a J2EE administrator, migration administrator, technical architect, or a project manager for a web hosting domain, and are interested in Apache Tomcat 7, then this book is for you. If you are someone responsible for installation, configuration, and management of Tomcat 7, then too, this book will be of help to you.

Contents:

Cover; Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Table of Contents; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; Chapter 1: Installation of Tomcat 7; History of Tomcat; Tomcat support matrix; Features and enhancements of Apache Tomcat 7

Web application memory leak detection and preventionServlet 3.0; Improved logging; Aliases; Installation of Tomcat 7; How to download the Tomcat software; Binary package; RPM/exe; Source; Prerequisites for the Tomcat 7 installation; Installation of Java; Configuration of OS environment variables; Installation of Apache Tomcat 7; Installation on a Windows environment; Installation on a Linux environment; Startup and shutdown of Tomcat services; Services in Windows; Services in Linux; Startup script; Shutdown script; Verification of Tomcat status

Common problems and troubleshooting in installationError: Permission denied for the Java binary; Error: Tomcat is not able to find JAVA_HOME; Error: Error in the logs showing port already in use; Summary; Chapter 2: Configuration and Deployment; Configuration files and their usage; Configuration of Tomcat 7; DataSource configuration; JDBC; JNDI; DataSource; Comparison of the datasource for common databases; Tomcat Manager configuration; Enabling the Tomcat Manager; Context path; Enabling the context path; Deployment in Tomcat 7; Structure of the WebArchive; Archive Files; Types of deployment

Ways of application deployment in Tomcat 7Common issues in deployment, configuration and their troubleshooting; Summary; Chapter 3: Performance Tuning; Performance tuning for Tomcat 7; Why we need performance tuning?; How to start performance tuning; Tomcat components tuning; Types of connectors for Tomcat 7; Java HTTP Connector; Java AJP Connector; APR (AJP/HTTP) Connector; Thread optimization for Tomcat 7; Shared thread pool (shared executor); Dedicated thread pool; Shared thread pool versus dedicated thread pool; Max threads; maxKeepAlive; JVM tuning

Why do we need to tune the JDK for Tomcat?JMAP (Memory Map); How to increase the heap size in Tomcat 7; Garbage collection; JVM options; Standard options; Non-standard options; Parameters displayed in the logs for GC; SurvivorRatio; OS tuning; Summary; Chapter 4: Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server; User request flow (web/application level); Why the Apache HTTP server; Installation of the Apache HTTP; Apache HTTP installation on Windows; How to monitor the Apache service; Installation of the Apache HTTP on Linux (non-DOS environment); Apache Portable Runtime

Apache Jserv protocol

Notes:

"Learn Apache Tomcat 7 step-by-step through a practical approach, achieving a wide vision of enterprise middleware along with building your own middleware servers, and administrating 24x7x365."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613523136

9781280118845

1280118849

9781849516631

1849516634

OCLC:

786272418