The Apache Tomcat server is an open source, Java-based web application container that was created to run servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) web applications. It was created under the Apache-Jakarta subproject. However, due to its popularity, it is now hosted as a separate Apache project, where it is supported and enhanced by a group of volunteers from the open source Java community. A web server is, of course, a program that dishes out web pages in response to requests from, for example, a user sitting at a web browser. But web servers aren't limited to serving up static HTML pages; they can also run programs in response to user requests and return the dynamic results to the user's browser.
This course follows a practical approach to teach installing, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat. It helps you to understand the middle architecture for hosting multiple websites and also provides the confidence to implement middleware support. It imparts to you the capacity to resolve migration issues and also provides regular maintenance solutions. You will encounter various structural components such as the Server and Service; containers such as the Engine, Host, Context, and Wrapper; and helpers such as the Loader, Manager, and Valve. You will also see how Tomcat implements the JNDI API to provide both a directory service for storage agnostic access to its resources, as well as a naming service that implements the Java EE Environment Naming Context.
In this course, you'll learn:
Apache Tomcat Installation
Learn how to configure Tomcat, including realms, roles, users, servlet sessions
Learn and Understand JNDI resources including JDBC DataSources
Deploying web applications-individual servlets
Tuning Tomcat to measure and improve performance
Integrating Tomcat with Apache Web Server
Securing Tomcat to keep online thugs at bay
Tomcat configuration files-server.xml and web.xml
This course gives you a wider vision of using Apache Tomcat in web technologies and the skill to optimize their performance using Apache Tomcat.
