Web Servers
Professional Apache Tomcat
Format: Paperback
Author: Chanoch Wiggers
ReleaseDate: 04 October, 2002
Publisher: Wrox
Rating:
Comprehensive Tomcat, terse and code heavy 
It's a rocket ride through installing Tomcat, building servlets and extensions, and then into web application security. In classic Wrox fashion this book is rich with code examples and a little light on exposition.
It's comprehensive in it's coverage of Tomcat, and rarely strays from that mark. There is a small foray into database development, but that is mainly around connection pooling, which is a related topic.
Overall an excellent introduction to Tomcat. My only complaints are that the book could have relied less on code itself for exposition, and that the reference value could have been expanded on a little bit.
So-called cryptic tomcat documentation is a better read. 
There is nothing professional about this book. I purchased the book literally "fooled" by the title. All this book tells you is the documentation that comes with tomcat! It does not even provide some naive examples (forget "professional" ones). (Does not explain jk2 installation, hardly any detailed configuration routines!) The only other purpose this book can serve to anyone, is to save paper while printing tomcat documentation.
Good for non-developers too 
Before picking up this book I had no direct experience of running either Tomcat or even the Apache Server. I'm not a software developer but need to know about Tomcat - detail on what it can do and how it relates to web servers and applications servers. This book provides an excellent introduction to the subject as well as having a wealth of detail for the more demanding reader. Highly recommended.
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