Mike, Here is information from a cursory search on Amazon.
Tomcat Kick Start by Martin Bond, Debbie Law (Paperback) Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $34.99 Buy new: $24.49 Used & new from $19.95 Mastering Tomcat Development by Peter Harrison, Ian McFarland (Paperback) Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $45.00 Buy new: $31.50 Used & new from $28.20 MySQL and JSP Web Applications: Data-Driven Programming Using Tomcat and MySQL by James Turner (Paperback) Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $39.99 Buy new: $27.99 Used & new from $24.93 Apache Jakarta-Tomcat by James Goodwill (Paperback) Avg. Customer Rating: 3.3 out of 5 stars Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $34.95 Buy new: $24.47 Used & new from $19.00 As to your question about whether or not this software is just to keep 'geeks' happy . . . . Tomcat and Struts are used in many commercial applications, including commercial application servers. I'm sure if I spent time poking around the innards of application servers I would find more evidence of open source software. /mde/ just my two cents . . . . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>