First, as I said, my comment about the Wrox books was a generalization. There's nothing "illogical" about making generalizations.
The Wrox books I've seen were pure garbage. When I'm at the bookstore now I don't even bother to browse those big red books, knowing my effort will probably be a waste of time. I usually stick with O'Reilly and Manning. Perhaps Wrox's quality has improved and I should browse them again. As for what I'm looking for -- basically, Tomcat Admin. There are other books that teach servlets/JSPs/JSTL/XML, etc. I'm interested in all aspects of using TC from an admin's point of view and from a programmer's point of view. I guess that's another generalization. :) Specifically, setting up TC, using it w/Apache and IIS, TC Security, clustering TC servers, setting up JNDI resources. I suspect any good TC book will have a good deal of overlap w/the servlet spec v2.4 which is fine. I know several books cover these topics (and others) but as I said, I was hoping to get some recommendations on the "best ones". Perhaps the Wrox one is "the best". Thanks very much for all the input. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to write. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:28 AM Subject: Re: Best Tomcat Book, Recommendations??? PART 2 > > What, exactly is it that you want to know? > > You say "I want a Tomcat book" but then you say "I don't want anything > about servlets". So what is it you want? An admin reference (the Wrox > book is focused that way)? A performance tuning book? People can't > answer you or help you unless you are specific! > > Do you have specific questions? Have you asked them here or on > tomcat-dev? Why wait for a book? You have access to the people who are > actually writing Tomcat and using Tomcat in heavy-duty production > situations right here, right now. > > John > > Tony LaPaso wrote: > > > Sorry, but I forgot to mention: I'm really only interested in Tomcat > > specifically, not how to program servlets/JSPs. Some of the TC books I've > > seen like to make themselves nice and plump by describing servlet > > programming, what HTTP is, what XML is, etc., etc. I don't need that extra > > fat. > > > > Thanks again... > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
