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This is the top-level entry point of the documentation bundle for the
Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP container. Tomcat 5 implements the
Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications from the
Java Community Process, and includes many
additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying
web applications and web services.
Select one of the links from the navigation menu (to the left) to drill
down to the more detailed documenation that is available. Each available
manual is described in more detail below.
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| Tomcat User Guide |
The following documents will assist you in downloading, installing
Tomcat 5, and using many of the Tomcat features.
- Introduction - A
brief, high level, overview of Tomcat.
- Setup - How to install and run
Tomcat on a variety of platforms.
- First web application
- An introduction to the concepts of a web application as defined
in the Servlet
2.3 Specification. Covers basic organization of your web application
source tree, the structure of a web application archive, and an
introduction to the web application deployment descriptor
(
/WEB-INF/web.xml).
- Deployer -
Operating the Tomcat Deployer to deploy, precompile, and validate web
applications.
- Manager -
Operating the
Manager web app to deploy, undeploy, and
redeploy applications while Tomcat is running.
- Realms and Access Control
- Description of how to configure Realms (databases of users,
passwords, and their associated roles) for use in web applications that
utilize Container Managed Security.
- Security Manager
- Configuring and using a Java Security Manager to
support fine-grained control over the behavior of your web applications.
- JNDI Resources
- Configuring standard and custom resources in the JNDI naming context
that is provided to each web application.
-
JDBC DataSource
- Configuring a JNDI DataSoure with a DB connection pool.
Examples for many popular databases.
- Classloading
- Information about class loading in Tomcat 5, including where to place
your application classes so that they are visible.
- JSPs
- Information about Jasper configuration, as well as the JSP compiler
usage.
- SSL -
Installing and
configuring SSL support so that your Tomcat will serve requests using
the
https protocol.
- SSI -
Using Server Side Includes in Tomcat.
- CGI -
Using CGIs with Tomcat.
- Proxy Support -
Configuring Tomcat 5 to run behind a proxy server (or a web server
functioning as a proxy server).
- MBean Descriptor -
Configuring MBean descriptors files for custom components.
- Default Servlet -
Configuring the default servlet and customizing directory listings.
- Tomcat Clustering -
Enable session replication in a Tomcat environment.
- Balancer -
Configuring, using, and extending the load balancer application.
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| Reference |
The following documents are aimed at System Administrators who
are responsible for installing, configuring, and operating a Tomcat 5 server.
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| Tomcat Developers |
The following documents are for Java developers who wish to contribute to
the development of the Tomcat project.
- Building from Source -
Details the steps necessary to download Tomcat 5 source code (and the
other packages that it depends on), and build a binary distribution from
those sources.
- Changelog - Details the
changes made to Tomcat.
- Status - Tomcat development
status.
- Developers - List of active
Tomcat contributors.
- Functional Specifications
- Requirements specifications for features of the Catalina servlet
container portion of Tomcat 5.
- Catalina Javadocs
- Javadoc API documentation for the Catalina servlet
container and its dependencies.
- Jasper Javadocs
- Javadoc API documentation for the Jasper JSP container
portion of Tomcat 5.
- Tomcat Architecture
- Documentation of the Tomcat Server Architecture.
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