ApacheCon Session

Apache Tomcat 6 is the latest version of the world's leading servlet container. In this full-day, hands-on training session geared to server administrators, attendees learn how to successfully setup, configure, monitor, performance tune, and secure Apache Tomcat 6. Specific topics covered in this one-day session include Installing Tomcat; Touring Tomcat's 7 directories and understanding the relationship between CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE; Deploying applications to Tomcat and cleaning up failed deployments; Configuring Tomcat via server.xml, web.xml, context.xml, and individual context configurations; Setting up logging; Monitoring Tomcat via JConsole; Performance tuning Tomcat and the underlying JVM; Controlling Tomcat via its JMX MBeans; Configuring JNDI resources and JDBC connection pools; Clustering and session replication; and running Tomcat in a clustering environment behind Apache httpd using mod_jk or mod_proxy_ajp + mod_proxy_balancer.