Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

294 Pages·2012·6.32 MB·English

by  Tanuj Khare

Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
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First published: March 2012
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Tanuj Khare Vishal Bodwani
Reviewers Proofreader
Zeeshan Chawdhary Linda Morris
Ty Lim
Vidyasagar N V Indexer
Rekha Nair
Acquisition Editor
Usha Iyer Graphics
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Manu Joseph
Lead Technical Editor
Susmita Panda
Production Coordinator
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Technical Editor
Unnati Shah
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About the Author
Tanuj Khare has been a professional in IT for over six years. He is involved in
process improvements using the ITIL framework and techniques such as Lean
Six Sigma. He is MCSA and ITIL certified, and has expertise in handling critical
production server issues. He also has a track record of dealing with many complex
problems. His quick resolution to issues faced in the production environment has
helped his team and clients in a big way.
Tanuj has Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Tomcat, WebLogic, and JBoss server
administration. His experience includes working with large-enterprise web hosting
environments for J2EE containers with small teams, and his quick turnaround
time gave on-time delivery. Apart from this, his technical expertise in Root Cause
Analysis, Problem Management, Migration of enterprise applications, and upgrade
of web application servers are commendable. Up to now, he has migrated more
than 100 enterprise applications and upgraded J2EE web applications. He has also
managed environments with over 1000 middleware instances.
Apart from work life, Tanuj enjoys playing Table Tennis and exploring new
technologies. He is a good dancer. This is his first book.
Acknowledgement
I would like to express my gratitude to all the people who have helped me to make
this book better. I thank Ranveer Chandel, who has helped me to provide high
technical standards for this book.
I would like to thank Archana Kannoujia, who has patiently helped me to improve
my writing style.
I would like to thank Mitesh Parikh and Giri Moturi for their support.
I would like to thank Usha Iyer, Vishal Bodwani, Susmita Panda, and everyone
else at Packt Publishing for all their hard work to get this book published. A special
thanks to Unnati Shah for her hard work and dedication to get this book published.
I would like to thank Ty Lim,Vidyasagar N V, and Zeeshan Chawdhury for
providing their valuable guidance and support that helped me achieve the high
technical standards.
And finally, I'd like to thank all my colleagues and friends, with whom I've worked
throughout my career, for contributing to my professional development.
About the Reviewers
Zeeshan Chawdhary is the CTO of Wcities Inc., a location-based travel content
provider, running technical operations from their Technical Headquarters
in Mumbai.
He is a do-it-all and code-in-any-language guy, having worked with various
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Ty Lim has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. He has worked for several
startup companies in the mid 1990s and found himself working at several major
corporations after his stint in Silicon Valley. He has worked in the following
industries: Software Development, Consulting, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and
Finance. He has experience in utilizing JBoss, Tomcat, and WebSphere middleware
technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the
University of the Pacific, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in CIS
from Boston University.
He has also worked on IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Security, Packt Publishing.
I would like to thank all my friends and family for their continued
support. I am truly blessed to have such great support. It is because
of all of you that I consider myself a very happy man.
Vidyasagar N V was interested in Computer Science since his early age. Some
of his serious work in computers and computer networks began during his high
school days. Later, he went to the prestigious institute of technology, Banaras Hindu
University for his B.Tech. He has been working as a Software Developer, Data
Expert, developing and building scalable systems since then. He has worked with
a variety of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation languages. He has also worked with Flat
files, Indexed files, Hierarchical databases, Network databases, Relational databases,
NoSQL databases, Hadoop, and related technologies.
Currently, he is working as a Senior Developer at Ziva Software Pvt. Ltd, developing
a big data-based structured data extraction technique from the Web and local
information. He enjoys producing high-quality software, web-based solutions, and
designing secure and scalable data systems.
He has also worked on PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide,
Packt Publishing.
He can be reached at [email protected].
I thank the almighty for giving me such a blessed life and thank
my parents, Mr. N. Srinivasa Rao and Mrs. Latha Rao, and my
family who supported and backed me throughout my life. I thank
my friends and all those people who donated their time, effort, and
expertise by participating in open source software projects. Also,
thanks to Packt Publishing for selecting me as one of the technical
reviewers for this wonderful book. It is my honor to be a part of
this book.
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