Taming Tomcat, Day 1: The Basics

• What I'm trying to achieve today

What is Tomcat

• A brief history of Distributed Hypertext
• A brief history of programming languages
• Server-side Java
• Reprise: What is Tomcat
• Simple install: Windows
• Simple Install: Debian
• Exercise: Install Tomcat

[Break]

Basic Configuration

• server.xml Brief highlights
• Top-level web.xml

Integration

• Why Integrate?
• Integration: Side-by-side
• Integration: One in front of the other
• Exercise: One in front of the other

[Lunch]

More complex Webapps

Stress testing

• Exercise: Running JMeter

Break

Building a Webapp with JSP

• Introduction to JSP
• Exercise: build a simple Webapp with JSP

Questions and Suggestions for tomorrow