You're right,I guess you can always use it to prop your monitor up. :) -e
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Aggarwal, Gautam (IE03) wrote: > Can a book ever be 'Pure Garbage'? Please think about it! > > Gautam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony LaPaso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:50 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Best Tomcat Book, Recommendations??? PART 2 > > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
