| Welcome to Apache Tomcat. The goal of this book is to
present everything you ever wanted to know about Apache
Tomcat. I’m not just interested in a mere recitation of facts,
however. My goal is to provide the information you need to
use Tomcat effectively. I want to show you how to run Tomcat
in real-world situations where Tomcat is not only a standalone
component in its own right but also a key part of an
enterprise information systems strategy.
First, here are a few basics. Tomcat is a servlet container—a
Web server capable of running Java-based Web applications.
Unlike a typical static Web server—which, when a browser
client requests a page, simply reads the appropriate file and
returns its contents to the client—Tomcat can execute Java
code dynamically to build pages that are returned to the
browser. The Java class packages that are used to do so are
collectively referred to as J2EE—Java Enterprise Edition.
Technically, a servlet container like Tomcat does not directly
support the entire feature set of J2EE but focuses primarily on
servlets and JSPs.
Tomcat is part of the Jakarta subproject of the Apache
Software Foundation. Jakarta refers to Java-based projects. The
starting point for our adventure in Tomcat is therefore its
homepage at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. |
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