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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

By : Tanuj Khare
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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.

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Tanuj Khare
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Installation of Tomcat 7
Installation of Tomcat 7
History of Tomcat
Installation of Tomcat 7
Common problems and troubleshooting in installation
Summary
2
Configuration and Deployment
Configuration and Deployment
Configuration files and their usage
Configuration of Tomcat 7
Comparison of the datasource for common databases
Deployment in Tomcat 7
Types of deployment
Common issues in deployment, configuration, and their troubleshooting
Summary
3
Performance Tuning
Performance Tuning
Performance tuning for Tomcat 7
How to start performance tuning
Tomcat components tuning
JVM tuning
OS tuning
Summary
4
Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server
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 Jserv protocol
IIS integration with Tomcat 7
Common issues and troubleshooting for integration
Summary
5
Securing Tomcat 7
Securing Tomcat 7
Tomcat Manager
Tomcat security permissions
Enabling Tomcat Manager
Securing Tomcat 7 for production
SSL configuration on Tomcat 7
Summary
6
Logging in Tomcat 7
Logging in Tomcat 7
JULI
Loggers, appenders, and layouts
Types of logging in Tomcat 7
Types of log levels in Tomcat 7
Log4j
Values for Tomcat 7
Log analysis
Summary
7
Troubleshooting in Tomcat
Troubleshooting in Tomcat
Common problem areas for web administrators
How to troubleshoot a problem
How to obtain a thread dump in Tomcat 7
Web server benchmarking
Summary
8
Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7
Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7
Different ways of monitoring
Monitoring setup for a web application and database server
Tomcat Manager in Tomcat 7
Monitoring in Tomcat 7
JConsole configuration on Tomcat 7
Summary
9
Clustering in Tomcat 7
Clustering in Tomcat 7
What is a cluster?
Clustering architecture
Vertical clustering in Apache Tomcat 7
Horizontal clustering in Apache Tomcat 7
Testing of the clustered instance
Monitoring of Tomcat clustering
Summary
10
Tomcat Upgrade
Tomcat Upgrade
Different types of environment
Life cycle of the upgrade
Tomcat upgrade from 6 to 7
ITIL process implementation
Summary
11
Advanced Configuration for Apache Tomcat 7
Advanced Configuration for Apache Tomcat 7
Virtual hosting
Virtual hosting in Tomcat 7
Hostname aliases
Multiple applications hosting on a single Tomcat 7 instance
Multiple Tomcat environments—Development/QA/Stage/Production
Tuning cache
Optimization of Tomcat 7
Summary

About the Reviewers

Zeeshan Chawdhary is the CTO of Wcities Inc., a location-based travel content provider, running technical operations from their Technical Headquarters in Mumbai.

He is a do-it-all and code-in-any-language guy, having worked with various technologies from 3D gaming to consumer websites, from iPhone apps to serving over 30 million hits over the Cloud.

He is currently writing two real-world-use books with Packt Publishing which are, iPhone Location Aware Applications by Example - Beginners Guide and Windows Phone 7.5 - Building Location Aware Applications.

He can be reached at imzeeshan on Twitter. He currently blogs at http://justgeeks.in.

I would like to thank the great people at Packt for letting me review this book. Special thanks to Vishal Bodwani, Susmita Panda, Leena Purkait, Amey Kanse, Alina Lewis, and a special mention for Mary Nadar, for having introduced me to the Packt family.

Ty Lim has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. He has worked for several startup companies in the mid 1990s and found himself working at several major corporations after his stint in Silicon Valley. He has worked in the following industries: Software Development, Consulting, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Finance. He has experience in utilizing JBoss, Tomcat, and WebSphere middleware technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of the Pacific, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in CIS from Boston University.

He has also worked on IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Security, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank all my friends and family for their continued support. I am truly blessed to have such great support. It is because of all of you that I consider myself a very happy man.

Vidyasagar N V was interested in Computer Science since his early age. Some of his serious work in computers and computer networks began during his high school days. Later, he went to the prestigious institute of technology, Banaras Hindu University for his B.Tech. He has been working as a Software Developer, Data Expert, developing and building scalable systems since then. He has worked with a variety of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation languages. He has also worked with Flat files, Indexed files, Hierarchical databases, Network databases, Relational databases, NoSQL databases, Hadoop, and related technologies.

Currently, he is working as a Senior Developer at Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd, developing a big data-based structured data extraction technique from the Web and local information. He enjoys producing high-quality software, web-based solutions, and designing secure and scalable data systems.

He has also worked on PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.

He can be reached at .

I thank the almighty for giving me such a blessed life and thank my parents, Mr. N. Srinivasa Rao and Mrs. Latha Rao, and my family who supported and backed me throughout my life. I thank my friends and all those people who donated their time, effort, and expertise by participating in open source software projects. Also, thanks to Packt Publishing for selecting me as one of the technical reviewers for this wonderful book. It is my honor to be a part of this book.

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