Professional Apache Tomcat 5

627 Pages·2004·11.745 MB·English

by  Vivek Chopra, Amit Bakore, Jon Eaves, Ben Galbraith, Sing Li, Chanoch Wiggers

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Professional Apache Tomcat 5
Vivek Chopra
Amit Bakore
Jon Eaves
Ben Galbraith
Sing Li
Chanoch Wiggers
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Professional Apache Tomcat 5
Vivek Chopra
Amit Bakore
Jon Eaves
Ben Galbraith
Sing Li
Chanoch Wiggers
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Professional Apache Tomcat 5
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About the Authors
Vivek Chopra
Vivek Chopra has over nine years of experience as a software developer, architect, and team lead, and is
currently working on Web Services, J2EE, and middleware technologies. He has worked and consulted
at a number of Silicon Valley companies (including Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and currently Sony) and
startups. He actively writes about technology and has co-authored half a dozen books on topics such as
Apache/open-source software, XML, and Web services. He is also a committer for UDDI4J, an open-
source Java API for UDDI. His other areas of experience and interest include compilers, middleware,
clustering, GNU/Linux, RFID systems, and mobile computing.
Sing Li
Sing Li, bitten by the microcomputer bug since 1978, has grown up with the Microprocessor Age. His
first personal computer was a $99 do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of
memory, mail-ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronicsmagazine. Currently, Sing is a consultant,
system designer, open-source software contributor, and freelance writer specializing in Java technology, as
well as embedded and distributed systems architecture. He writes for several popular technical journals
and e-zines, and is the creator of the “Internet Global Phone,” one of the very first Internet telephones
available. He has authored and co-authored a number of books across diverse technical topics, including
Tomcat, JSP, Servlets, XML, Jini, and JXTA.
Ben Galbraith
Ben Galbraith was introduced to Java in 1999, and has since become something of a Java enthusiast. He
has written dozens of Java/J2EE applications for numerous clients, and has built his share of Web sites.
He actively tinkers on several open-source projects and participates in the Java Community Process. He
has also co-authored a gaggle of books on various Java/XML-related topics, including the one you’re
holding now. He is president of the Utah Java User’s Group (www.ujug.org) and Director of Software
Development for Amirsys (www.amirsys.com).
Jon Eaves
Jon Eaves is the Chief Technology Officer of ThoughtWorks Australia and has more than 15 years of soft-
ware development experience in a wide variety of application domains and languages. He can be
reached at [email protected].
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Amit Bakore
Amit Bakoreis a Sun-certified Web component developer and Java programmer. He works at Veritas
Software R&D center, Pune (India). Earlier, he was a part of the Server Technologies group at Oracle,
Bangalore (India), as a Senior Member Technical Staff. He has been working primarily on Java, J2EE,
XML, and Linux. His areas of interest include open-source technologies and satellite-launching vehicles.
He can be reached at [email protected]. Amit dedicates this work to his parents, Dr.
Ramkrishna and Sau. Vaijayanti.
Chanoch Wiggers
Chanoch Wiggersis a senior developer with Kiwi DMD, U.K., programming with J2EE and VB. He
previously worked as a technical architect with Wrox Press, editing, architecting, and contributing to
Java books.
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Credits
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Acknowledgments
The behind-the-scenes work undertaken to create this book was as critical as writing the book itself. For
this, we would like to acknowledge the efforts of our editorial team: Bob Elliot (our executive editor),
Kathryn Malm (our editorial manager), and Kevin Shafer (our development editor). In addition, we
certainly couldn’t have done this without the expert help of Rupert Jones, our technical reviewer.
We would also like to acknowledge our respective families for all the support they gave us in this project.