I've read both Wrox' "Professional Apache Tomcat" and O'Reilly's "TOmcat: The Definitive Guide". Both are good but I think Wrox's book has more meat. Unfortunately, the information in both books can be found on Tomcas's website. THere is a new book called "How Tomcat Works" (BrainySoftware.com) that explains everything you need to know about TOmcat 4 and 5. It is more a programming book, teaching you how to develop Tomcat modules. However, there is a lot of inside secrets useful for configuration as well. For example, after reading the book I managed to figure out how to change the checkInterval of the loader, from the default 15 to any integer. That is Tomcat will check if a class or web.xml has been modified and reload the application. What I mean is you use:
<Context path="/app" docBase="app" debug="8" reloadable="true"> <Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader" reloadable="true" checkInterval="7"/> </Context> This is what I call valuable information because you can't even find this on Tomcat's website or anywhere else. Sample chapters are from brainysoftware.com. Cover is ugly, I think the author, who self-published his book, did it himself:) Josh Harahap, J2EE developer Hi, I can recommend 'Professional Apache Tomcat' published by WROX (ISBN: 0764543725). It does not cover Tomcat 5 though. A new book about Tomcat 5 is gonna be released in June I think (ISBN: 0764559028). So I'd say just wait for that... Thomas -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: wsedio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 11:38 An: Tomcat Users List Betreff: tomcat book Hi all, what is the best Tomcat book around? It would be great if it also covers Tomcat 5 ... Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
