Tomcat 6 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgement
About the reviewers
Preface
Introduction to Tomcat
What's the story behind Tomcat?
What exactly is Tomcat?
Why this book?
Gathering our tools
Summary
Servlet API Overview
Java Community Process
Java Enterprise Edition platform
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
What is the Servlet API?
Servlet Container Overview
Component taxonomy
Starting Up Tomcat
The Server and Service Components
The Connector Component
The Engine Component
The Host Component
The Context Component
Aspects of the Context component
Web application resources
Shared library mechanism
URLs and protocol handlers
Java class loading
Implementing a custom class loader
Making a class available
Context initialization and startup
Request processing
Hot deploying a context
Context example
The Wrapper Component
The Manager Component