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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

Web server benchmarking


Now we know how to troubleshoot problems and find potential solutions in the systems. There is one more point left to discuss, Web server benchmarking. Without discussing this topic, troubleshooting in Tomcat 7 cannot be marked as complete. It's a process through which we gauge the performance of a web server, also known as Load testing. In this process, we run the server virtually on a heavy load and estimate the real-time performance. This process is very useful if we want to do capacity planning for the web server. There are many tools available for performing load testing on the server such as ApacheBench (ab), JMeter, LoadRunner, OpenSTA, and so on. Let's discuss the commonly used open source tools such as ApacheBench and JMeter. If we do the benchmarking of the server before the go live stage, then we will face less issues in production support. Also, it helps in improving the performance and designing the scalable environment architecture.

ApacheBench

ApacheBench...