Taming Tomcat, Day 2: Development and Administration

• What I'm trying to achieve today

Anatomy of a Webapp

• Anatomy of a Webapp (ii): Layout of resources
• the Webapp classpath
• the web.xml file

[Break]

Tomcat and the database

• Connection Pools: options
• The Tomcat Connection Pool

[Lunch]

Administering Tomcat

• The Manager Webapp
• Enabling the Manager webapp
• What the Manager Webapp can do (i)
• The Admin Webapp
• Log file analysis

[Break]

Development frameworks for Webapps

• Struts
• Tapestry
• Jacquard

Questions and Suggestions for tomorrow