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Apache Tomcat If you ve written any Java servlets or JavaServer Pages ( JSPs), chances are good that you ve downloaded Tomcat. That is because Tomcat is a free, feature-complete Servlet container that developers of servlets and JSPs can use to run their code. Tomcat is used in Sun s reference implementation of the Servlet Container, which means that Tomcat s first goal is to be 100 percent compliant with the versions of the Servlet and JSP API specifications that it supports. However, Tomcat is more than just a test server. Many corporations are using Tomcat in production environments because it has proven to be quite stable. These corporations range from Fortune 500 companies such as WalMart and General Motors to ISPs hosting multiple small-business Web sites. Tomcat is used in the real world to run everything from online photo albums (Webshots) to high performance financial Web applications (ETrade). A list of Tomcat-powered Web sites is at http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/PoweredBy . Despite Tomcat s popularity, it suffers from a common shortcoming among open source projects: lack of complete documentation. Some documentation is distributed with Tomcat (mirrored at http://tomcat.apache.org), and there s an open source effort to write a Tomcat book (http://tomcatbook.sourceforge.net/). Even with these resources, however, there is a great need for additional material. this blog has been created not just to fill in some of the documentation holes, but to use the combined experience of the authors to help Java developers and system administrators make the most of the Tomcat product. Whether you re trying to learn enough to just get started developing Web applications or want to understand the more arcane aspects of Tomcat configuration, you should find what you re looking for within these pages. The first two chapters are designed to provide newcomers with some basic background information that is prerequisite learning for subsequent chapters. If you re a system administrator with no previous Java experience, we advise you to read these first two chapters, and likewise if you re a Java developer who is new to Tomcat. If you re well informed about Tomcat and Java, you ll

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