I've seen a lot of great ideas for material that Adam Fowler could or should cover in
the Tomcat book he's writing for Sams Publishing. But a book, to really be a book,
needs to have a focus and not many of the suggestions offered have really had much at
all to do with Tomcat as a specific servlet container. Though I think the suggestion
below is an excellent one, other than issues with using the security manager inside
Tomcat, it's really a Java security specific topic. I grant that I would love to see
a book that focused specifically on issues of security, authentication, encryption,
etc, as they apply to servlets and jsp. Besides briefly covering the technologies
themselves, such a book could go into where and when to apply individual technologies
and why. What about session security? How does JAAS fit in? In a nutshell, how can
we write network applications (in a servlet/jsp environment) that are secure. But
such a book isn't about Tomcat.
Things related to Tomcat are how does Tomcat fit into the other components of the
Jakarta project? How do we install Tomcat to work in
conjunction with Apache and make the two compliment each other? How do
we embed Tomcat? How do we create new application contexts and what kinds of things
can we do with them? There are several Tomcat based portals available -- how do we
set them up? Etc. And maybe also put the servlet & jsp specs as appendices.
On the other hand, maybe the proposed book is really an advanced servlet/jsp handbook
of sorts (heaven knows, we don't need yet another introductory book). In that case
the book isn't really about Tomcat per se, even though most of the books examples,
etc, will be based on Tomcat. Moreover, most all the suggestions offered so far with
fit in such a book because the focus would really be on advanced servlet/jsp
development and deployment.
I think either kind of book would be an excellent book. What I would hate to see is a
book that's something of a mishmash in between -- not really about Tomcat, and not
really about advanced issues of servlet/jsp development and deployment focused on
Tomcat. Such a book might sell because a lot of people who buy technical books really
have no idea what they're buying, but it would still not be a good book.
-- Rob
--On Thursday, March 08, 2001 06:50:40 PM -0300 "Rodriguez Victor A."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> I am a Technology Consultant (my programming skills are not very
> high), and many times the security related task are the less known to
> the programmers (how to catch and use a security contexts, safe
> programming, etc.).
>
> I think that a chapter devoted to security related tasks would be
> avery good idea.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Víctor A. Rodríguez ( http://www.bit-man.com.ar)
> Telefónica de Argentina - http://www.Telefonica.com.ar
> Tel. (54-11) 4333-7305 - Fax: (54-11) 4303-5586 int. 1680
>
>
>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: Adam Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Enviado el: Saturday, March 03, 2001 05:52
>> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Asunto: Upcoming Tomcat book...
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I will shortly be writing a book for Sams Publishing in a
>> similar format to
>> the recently released(and well received) book on Python.
>>
>> I currently have the task of writing a proposal for content
>> of the book. The
>> book's target audience is web developers who will be using
>> Tomcat. It will
>> be based on Tomcat 4.0, but will also be useful for Tomcat 3.x.
>>
>> I am e-mailing this list to ask for serious suggestions for
>> sections of the
>> book. From installation through configuration to deploying custom
>> applications.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated and would benefit everyone as
>> this book is
>> meant to be for you people.
>>
>> If any Tomcat User Group(TUG) members wish to write user
>> documentation for
>> Tomcat (The 'paths' that have been discussed) then drop me an
>> e-mail and
>> maybe we can help each other.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adam.
>>
>> ----
>> Adam Fowler
>> Second year Computer Science undergraduate
>> University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>> Carroll College, WI, USA(2000-2001)
>> web: http://gucciboy.dyndns.org/aff9
>> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"
>> ----
>>
>>
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