Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
David Smith wrote: rant mode=ventingI have to tell you guy, true nightmares exist in answering questions from people who obviously haven't made any attempt at learning the technology before throwing stuff together and asking questions. Please do us a favor and get a recently written book on

Re: Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Gregor Schneider
Professional Apache Tomcat 5: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764559028.html There's also a Tomcat 6-version available However, I've used the really good documentation on the Tomcat-Website, started with their examples and read the mailinglist, which altogether gave me a pretty

Re: Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Gregor Schneider
Forgot to mention: Tomcat. The Definitive Guide. By Jason Brittain and Ian F. Darwin might also be a *very* good catch since Jason is a well known contributor to the Jakarta projects and definately knows his ways around Tomcat - if I ever had to buy a book, I guess I'd go for the O'Reilly...

Re: Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
David Smith wrote: I have no doubt Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is very good although I would suspect it's targeted to the tomcat servlet container specifically rather than java servlets and jsp. At the point you are at, a book that targets java servlets and jsp is better than a book that