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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

By : Tanuj Khare
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Book Image

Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

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By: Tanuj Khare

Overview of this book

Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The latest major stable release, Apache Tomcat version 7 implements the Servlet 3 and JavaServer Pages 2 specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials follows a practical approach to teach installing, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat. It helps you to understand the middle architecture for hosting multiple websites and also provides the confidence to implement middleware support. It imparts to you the capacity to resolve migration issues and also provides regular maintenance solutions. This is the first and only book to cover upgrading to Tomcat 7 from previous versions.The journey of the reader starts at the beginner level and ends at the expert level. The content is designed in such a way that it balances the theory and practical approach for understanding concepts related to handling middle ware and web issues.In this book, you will go through a three-phase life cycle. The first cycle consists of installation, configuration of Tomcat 7 on different OS, and other configurations related to JDBC, port, deployment etc. The second phase deals with the building of enterprise application setup and high availability architecture (clustering load balancing). The third and critical phase will teach you to handle critical issues, performance tuning, and best practices for various environment stacks like dev/QA/stage/production.This book gives you a wider vision of using Tomcat 7 in web technologies and the skill to optimize their performance using Apache Tomcat 7.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Tomcat components tuning


In Tomcat 7, you can do many configurations to improve the server performance, threads tuning, port customization, and JVM tuning. Let's quickly discuss the major components of Tomcat 7 which are important for performance improvement.

Types of connectors for Tomcat 7

Connectors can be defined as a point of intersection where requests are accepted and responses are returned. There are three types of connectors used in Tomcat 7, as shown in the following figure. These connectors are used according to different application requirements. Let's discuss the usability of each connector:

Java HTTP Connector

The Java HTTP Connector is based on the HTTP Protocol, which supports only the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It makes the Tomcat server act as a standalone web server and also enables the functionality to host the JSP/servlet.

Note

For more information on the HTTP Connector, please visit http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html.

Java AJP Connector

The Java AJP Connector...