Apache Jakarta-Tomcat

Author: James Goodwill List Price: $34.95 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 1893115364 Publisher: APress (01 January, 1970) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 23,374 Average Customer Rating: 3.09 out of 5

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It's hard to imagine that someone would write a book on a J2EE server and provide ABSOLUTELY NO INFORMATION on how to configue a JDBC datasource. Although it does tell you how to use mySQL for Tomcat user info instead of using the default xml file. Thanks for that completely useless piece of information.

It provides no information on what parts of JSP/Servlet dev. are specific to Tomcat and which are part of the standard. I could write several pages citing hundereds of other reasons why this book ..., but I think I have wasted enough of my time. Don't trust any reviews on here. If someone has given this book more stars than the minimum allowed they are probaly working for the publisher. I only wish amazon.com had negative ratings so I could give this product an accurate review.

If you are looking to get into JSP/Servlets avoid this text. Pick up the Sun "core" book and read the documentation for Tomcat. And, if you happen to see the author of this book, kick him square in the nuts. Several hundred times.

I liked it.

Forget the measured blend of theory, fact and example which is the style of O'Reilly's authors. This book cuts to the chase, and it works.

You see, Tomcat is a servlet runner. It isn't that interesting or even the best of breed (Jetty is way better). Tomcat is as interesting as what you do with it, and Goodwill drags you along through a flash tour of all the goodies.

Its a bit like a night tour of Naples on the back of an Italian cigarette smuggler's Vespa. Somehow, at the end, despite not having understood much, you find you know your way around and feel comfortable exloring further on your own.

Take it or leave it. That's just the kind of book it is.

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