Tomcat 5 Unleashed
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Tomcat 5 Unleashed
Lajos Moczar
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Getting the most bang for their buck is a goal for every company, large or small. That is why open-source technologies are becoming so popular. However, organizations are often wary of the scalability, security and stability that open-source technologies offer. Tomcat Unleashed is a comprehensive guide that will show you how Tomcat 5.x can meet these expectations and more. Detailed, hands-on coverage of Tomcat 5.x will teach you how to deploy it at an enterprise level, as well as integrate it with other components, including databases, LDAP and web application frameworks. Get the most bang for your buck with Tomcat Unleashed.

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Tomcat is the most widely used Java-based Web application server available, and the latest version, Tomcat 5.x, has a variety of features that allow developers and administrators to create and maintain sophisticated enterprise-level Web applications. As open-source technologies like Tomcat have become more popular and more powerful, developers and organizations increasingly want to be able to create open source technology-based applications with the same scalability, security, and stability traditionally associated with commercial software.Tomcat Unleashed is a comprehensive book that shows readers how Tomcat 5.x can meet such expectations and use it as the cornerstone of the modern enterprise. The book includes detailed, hands-on coverage of the use of Tomcat in the enterprise and the integration of Tomcat with other components - databases, LDAP servers, Web servers and particular Web application frameworks like Struts and Cocoon.

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2 out of 5 stars Too heavy at beginning to be useful.......2006-10-18

After a useful chapter 1 "Quickstart", the text plunges quickly into mind-boggling complexity, including lengthy initial "Security basics", philosophic "Overview of JEE application development", "Web application principles", "Web application design", and a do-it-my-way "Setting up a development environment" chapters. Do we have to have Ant and MySQL installation at the start? Finally, chapters 9 and 10 are helpful for those who either persevered or skipped ahead.

Publishers should require better writing skills from their authors and "cut-the-crap".

5 out of 5 stars Best One I Found on Tomcat.......2006-09-06

There are quite a few Tomcat books. This is, easily, the best I found so far. Since Tomcat is the servlet container of choice at our shop, I ordered every book I could find on Tomcat.

Basically, Lajos Moczar writes with a lot of passion about best practices. And, they happen to be opinions that I mostly agree with and enforce!

5 out of 5 stars great overview.......2006-05-10

This is a great introduction - very clear, very easy to read! My goal was to configure already installed tomcat for a new domain in a very short period of time. This is the second book I tried to read on Tomcat - and in contrast with the first one (I spent 3 hours on one chapter because it just did not sink in), this is very easy to udnerstand for a beginner.
This book does not only go into how to do something, it also explains "why," so you can begin to understand the basic principles of Tomcat set up and quickly catch on.

5 out of 5 stars great resource.......2006-02-28

writer uses very close reader relationship approach and book reading flows like butter,
it creates a nice context alongside to make learning of tomcat less dry and more realistic
good job

5 out of 5 stars Top flight Tomcat.......2005-10-14

I took a while to study the books about the Tomcat server and finally settled on this one. When I got into it, it was better than I thought it would be. If you want to learn how to work with Tomcat 5 (there's also good information on Tomcat 4), this is the one. It takes a pragmatic and practical approach and covers every topic you need to implement a production Tomcat server. I have no criticisms of this book and no regrets for having ordered it.
TOMCAT 5 UNLEASHED
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    TOMCAT 5 UNLEASHED

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    Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking
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      Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking
      Jae K. Shim , and Michael Constas
      Manufacturer: CRC
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      The Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is a practical reference of proven techniques, strategies, and approaches. It covers virtually all important topics dealing with multinational business finance, money, investments, financial planning, financial economics, and banking. In addition, it explores the application of computers, quantitative techniques and models, and economics to international finance and banking. You get: o Clear definitions and explanations o Step-by-step instructions o Statistical data, Charts, exhibits, and diagrams o Checklists o Practical Applications Shim presents the most current information, offers important directives, and explains the technical procedures involved in this dynamic field. This reference gives you the tools you need to diagnose and evaluate the financial situations you face on a daily basis and answers every question you may have. It provides real-life examples and suggestions for handling everyday problems. WHAT THIS BOOK WILL DO FOR YOU More than a dictionary, more than an encyclopedia, this working guide will help you quickly pinpoint: o What to look for o How to do it o What to watch out for o How to apply it in the complex world of business o What to do You'll find ratios, formulas, examples, applications, exhibits, charts, and rules of thumb to help you analyze and evaluate any multinational financial decision. You will find this Encyclopedic Dictionary practical, comprehensive, quick, and useful. In short, this is a veritable cookbook of guidelines, illustrations, and how-tos. Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is the resource you will reach for again and again.

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        Jae K. And Michael Constas Shim
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        The Gradual Convergence: Foreign Ideas, Foreign Influences, and English Law on the Eve of the 21st Century
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          Contributors: B. S. Markesinis, J. R. S. Spencer, M. Delmas-Marty, Mr Justice Auld, Werner Lorenz, C. von Bar, Lord Goff of Chieveley, D. Tallon, M. J. Bonell, Sir Thomas Bingham, H. G. Schermers, D. A. Wyatt, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, F. Francioni, H. Bocken, Stephen Tromans, Judge D. Edward The theme of this volume is `Learning from Europe'. The contributors discuss discrete areas of the law in which there are underlying similarities and common problems in the major European Law systems. The picture which emerges is one of the growing `Europeanization' of English Law, and of the spreading influence of European judicial styles throughout the English legal system. The longer essays written by the academic commentators are followed by comparative commentaries written by several of the country's leading judges.

          Can primitive farming be modernised? (Publications de l'Institut national pour l'etude agronomique du Congo)
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            Floribert Jurion
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              Suzanne Lucas
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              From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
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                Rachel Laudan
                Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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                "A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined."—Jere H. Lipps, The Scientist
                From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
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                  Rachel Laudan
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                  Stopping of Heavy Ions: A Theoretical Approach (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
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                    Peter Sigmund
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                    This book offers a concise presentation of theoretical concepts characterizing and quantifying the slowing down of swift heavy ions in matter. Although the penetration of charged particles through matter has been studied for almost a hundred years, the quantitative theory for swift penetrating ions heavier than helium has been developed mainly during the past decade and is still progressing rapidly. The book addresses scientists and engineers working at accelerators with an interest in materials analysis and modification, medical diagnostics and therapy, mass spectrometry and radiation damage, as well as atomic and nuclear physicists. Although not a textbook, this monograph represents a unique source of state-of-the-art information that is useful to a university teacher in any course involving the interaction of charged particles with matter.

                    A Little Change of Face (Red Dress Ink Novels)
                    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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                    • I thought the story sounded unique so I picked it up.
                    • A Little Change of Face, Indeed
                    A Little Change of Face (Red Dress Ink Novels)
                    Lauren Baratz-Logsted
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                    I need to change my life.

                    On the surface, it doesn't look too bad.

                    Great body, check. Pretty face, check.
                    Job, check.

                    Chicken pox. Check.

                    Stuck in her Danbury, Connecticut condo in self-imposed exile until she's contagion-free, Scarlett Jane Stein keeps circling around to a passing comment her friend Pam made: how everything (read: men) comes to Scarlett just because she's attractive.

                    Is it true? All her life she's thought that she was fun to be around, that people liked her. Was it only because she was pretty (say it -- because she's got incredible breasts)? Or is Pam, tired of playing second fiddle, now playing her? All Scarlett knows is that she's never found the man she believes is out there, her One True Love. So maybe Scarlett needs to change things up.

                    So it's goodbye, Scarlett and hello, dowdier, schlumpier Lettie Shaw. And with her new look, new name, new home, and new job, is there a chance that Lettie-nee-Scarlett will find someone who loves her for who she is inside? Or has Scarlett's little change of face turned into the biggest mistake of her life?

                    Customer Reviews:

                    2 out of 5 stars Fluff.......2007-08-21

                    I would have found this excellent work for a fifteen-year old writer, but the author seems to be an adult. The story line's a little forseeable, the author spends a chapter building up to The Breasts, a chapter explaining The Breasts, and the chapter afterwards talking about others' views of The Breasts. Also annoying is the author's compulsive need to Capitalize Everything. She never gives one of the main characters (The Best Girlfriend) any name whatsoever, and gives a highly racist name (Token Black?!!) to another side character. All her bad characters had a name starting with P. (Pat, Pam) This author could have made this a funny, in depth search into what attracts people, but she skimmed the scummy surface of the worst chick lit possible instead.

                    3 out of 5 stars A story with three moral lessons.......2006-11-17

                    1.) You can't judge a book by it's cover
                    2.) You always know who your true friends are
                    3.) Be yourself

                    Librarian Scarlett Jane Stien learns these lessons the hard way when her 'friend' Pam talks into changing her look to see if she could catch a man for her personality instead of her looks. Scarlett goes full throttle, not just changing her looks, but her job, her place to live, and even her name.

                    This was an okay book, not the best I've read. Pam got on my nerves way too much and Scarlett was too much of a pushover when it came to Pam in this situation.

                    5 out of 5 stars Certainly a different twist on an old Cinderella story............2006-09-23

                    Is there one person out there that doesn't know a Cinderella story when they hear it? Take one plain girl, make her beautiful, and the handsome prince comes along. Well....Lauren Baratz-Logsted did just the opposite!! She took a remarkably beautiful woman named Scarlett and turned her plain to see if men would still be interested! Is beauty really only skin deep? Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? When Scarlett's "friend" tells her in no uncertain terms that she gets everything she wants because she's beautiful, she decides to prove her wrong. She decides a change is in order: new hair, new clothes, new job...even a new name, Lettie. Now, in the real world would this EVER happen? Who knows? But it makes for a quirky, funny and amazingly honest book! Loved it!

                    3 out of 5 stars I thought the story sounded unique so I picked it up. .......2006-06-20

                    The premise of the story is that 40-ish Scarlett Stein decides to make herself dowdier in order to prove to her friend (Pam) that men like her for who she is not what she looks like.

                    The newness of the storyline wore off around the 5th chapter, and I started skimming around the 7th chapter. The story had so much promise but it ended up falling flat. The characters were shallow, selfish, and acted like they were in high school. Try as I might I just couldn't put forth the effort to finish this book cover to cover. One main reason is I dislike reading a book about women (most of which were going on 40 years old) acting like a bunch of immature 10th graders. That was the biggest turn off for me.

                    I had planned on reading "The Thin Pink Line" by the author also, but I think I'll set it aside for now. I don't know if I can take it.

                    4 out of 5 stars A Little Change of Face, Indeed.......2006-06-12

                    This is my second of Lauren's novels to read, and I'm beginning to know what to expect from her -- gleeful wit, sweet yet wacky heroines, and characters who do the most illogical things for very logical reasons. With creations that lie in that intersection between completely relatable and unbelievably insane, we laugh and sympathize with her protagonists even as we gawk in shock at their actions. A Little Change of Face is no different, the main character, tired of superficial attention for being so beautiful decides to give herself an inverted makeover and see how her life changes. Along her adventure, we see how the protagonist, Scarlett, and her alter-ego, Lettie hierarchize her best friends (the real best friend, the default best friend) as many women secretly do, get a satiracal view into pseudo-intellectual women's books clubs, and are privty to her by turns insightful, juvenile, and keyed-up reactions to men. It is the treatment of Lettie's friends that seems to draw the most flack in this book. If it matters, I am Black, among other things, and I found T.B. to be satire, which means, if you think her role in the book as the non-standard English talking accessory is racist, you're right! Lauren is showing how the use of minority characters as marginalized, cliched stereotypes is wrong, so she names the character T.B. so that we acknowledge the character as an unjust creation. It would be more racist to have called the character Susan or Molly and acted as if her stereotypical behavior was meant as realism -- like, for example, the indigenous and black people in the works of Isabel Allende. Then we would too be a party to racist behavior by reading the book without any sense of the problematic. I suggest that people who don't like this book b/c of T.B. watch Spike Lee's Bamboozled. This black director creates a blackface show in his movie not to say blackface is okay but to skewer, through satire, stereotypical black television. This book is indeed a little change of face, it's warm, witty, joyful chick-lit that decides to get a bit political. A worthy read.
                    FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 82, number 4 - April Apr 1992: Investigating Jericho; True Faces; Prison Dreams; Mom's Little Friends; Going Through Changes; Water; Having Words; Angleman
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                      FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 82, number 4 - April Apr 1992: Investigating Jericho; True Faces; Prison Dreams; Mom's Little Friends; Going Through Changes; Water; Having Words; Angleman
                      Kristine Kathryn (editor) (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Pat Cadigan; Paul J. McAuley; Ray Vukcevich; Pat Murphy; Vance Aandahl; Alan Dean Foster; Jessie Thompson) Rusch
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                      Change of planners: Little Rock Planning Commission has five new faces and a sixth on the way.: An article from: Arkansas Business
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                        Change of planners: Little Rock Planning Commission has five new faces and a sixth on the way.: An article from: Arkansas Business
                        George Waldon
                        Manufacturer: Journal Publishing, Inc.
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                        This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on November 25, 1991. The length of the article is 1360 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                        Title: Change of planners: Little Rock Planning Commission has five new faces and a sixth on the way.
                        Author: George Waldon
                        Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: November 25, 1991
                        Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
                        Volume: v8 Issue: n48 Page: p10(2)

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                        A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation
                        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                        • The Great Air Power Innovator
                        • A very good biography of a controversial person
                        • Aviation History
                        A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation
                        Douglas C. Waller
                        Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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                        ASIN: 0060505478
                        Release Date: 2004-09-07

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                        It had all the ingredients of a movie drama:a scandal that grips Washington and touches the White House; bitter battles and backroom intrigue at the highest levels of the U.S. military; glamorous women who make or break the careers of powerful men; a high-stakes trial with a celebrity defendant who captures the nation's attention ...

                        A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, the hero of the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and the man who proved in 1921 that planes could sink a battleship. In 1925 Mitchell was frustrated by the slow pace of aviation development, and he sparked a political firestorm, accusing the army and navy high commands, and by inference the president, of treason and criminal negligence in the way they conducted national defense. He was put on trial for insubordination in a spectacular court-martial that became a national obsession during the Roaring Twenties.

                        Douglas Waller has crafted a compelling new biography of the daring Billy Mitchell, a larger-than-life figure remembered as much for his outspokenness as for his innovations in the use of airpower. Waller has uncovered a trove of new letters, diaries, and confidential documents that have enabled him to capture in detail the drama of the court and to build a rich and revealing biography of Mitchell, one of the army's most controversial and flamboyant generals.

                        Born to a millionaire Midwest family at the end of the 1870s, Mitchell joined the military at the age of eighteen and became one of its rising stars. During World War I, he led the largest armada of airplanes ever to attack an enemy force and returned to the United States a dashing young general with a chest full of medals and a radical vision of airpower as the only decisive instrument for future wars. But as the military shrank in the postwar years, Mitchell became increasingly impatient and vocal, lashing out at bureaucratic enemies he accused of impeding airpower's progress. After a tragic airship accident that shocked the nation, he publicly blasted the War and Navy Departments for their handling of aviation and was put on trial for it.

                        A Question of Loyalty is a story about Washington politics, about love and betrayal, about heroes in battle, about determined lawyers and powerful military men pitted against one another in a courtroom.

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                        5 out of 5 stars The Great Air Power Innovator.......2004-12-29

                        The Air Force is the brashest arm of the armed forces. It is far newer than the Army or Navy, and more reliant on the latest in technology. There is an image of the flyboy as handsome, heroic, and rule-bending if not rule-breaking. The archetype of such an image is General Billy Mitchell, whose most famous act was getting a court-martial in 1925 for speaking up about how he felt air power ought to be developed. His is a story that has been told before, even (badly) in the movies, but in _A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation_ (HarperCollins), Douglas Waller has retold the story with a wealth of new information and the help of the Mitchell family. Mitchell's story was a sensation during his trial, and as part of the universal drama of the iconoclastic genius against the system, presents issues for current times, besides being a lesson in how big organizations change or resist change.

                        The trial was the climactic event in Mitchell's life, and Waller has told it in lengthy detail, interspersing facts of Mitchell's earlier life and career within it. Mitchell didn't think his trial was the most important event in his life; he would have listed his role in WWI and his successful demonstration in 1921 that aircraft could sink a ship. Mitchell loved being a populist, skillfully using the media to enlist the support of the public for his causes. In September 1925, the Navy's dirigible _Shenandoah_ crashed in a thunderstorm, killing fourteen of its crew. Mitchell wrote a 6,000 word statement and issued it at a press conference, listing the _Shenandoah_'s demise specifically and other general ailments that he said "... are the direct result of the incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense by the Navy and War Departments." Mitchell was ordered to stand court-martial in Washington on catch-all charges that he had violated Army order and discipline and brought discredit to the military. The trial proved to be a sensation, studied daily and argued over by people who would have otherwise had no interest in air defense. The outcome is unsurprising; even if Mitchell had had ever fact correct in detail, he still would have been insubordinate. Hap Arnold, who admired him and commanded the Army Air Forces during World War II, said simply, "In accordance with the army code, Billy had it coming."

                        He died in 1936, so he did not live to see his vindication in World War II. Mitchell had predicted, for instance, that the Japanese would bomb Pearl Harbor from the air. Like any prophet, he didn't get all the details right, but his predictions about blitzkrieg, strategic bombing of cities, and others proved his thinking on the issues to be far more firmly grounded than his accusers. He has been vindicated in many ways. Of course the Air Force eventually became an independent part of the military as he had wanted. The "Mitchellites", those who had been his disciples, put his theories into practice during the war he knew was coming. Congress posthumously awarded him a special medal. The Air Force Academy's dining hall is named for him, and its class of 2001 selected him as the man they most wanted to emulate. It is a curious choice for our times. Waller clearly shows in this full biography that Mitchell was a brilliant and innovative leader and a daring commander in combat, as well as being a visionary on the future of air power, but he was during his lifetime mostly a pain in the neck for those he worked with. In the current atmosphere where questioning governmental decisions quickly leads to charges of supporting liberals or terrorists, any Billy Mitchell that is rising in the ranks could expect no better treatment from the military.

                        4 out of 5 stars A very good biography of a controversial person.......2004-12-18

                        This is a very good biography of one of the 20th century's controversial figures; Army General Billy Mitchell. Prior to his court-martial in 1925, Mitchell had served in combat in the Spanish-American war and rose to Brigadier General in World War I as Pershing's Air Commander. Mitchell is best remembered for his demonstration of aircraft sinking a battleship. The movie "The Court- martial of Billy Mitchell" staring Gary Cooper glamorized the sinking and the court-martial. The battle ship was stationary and it took two days and many bombs to sink it. But, Mitchell proved correct about the vulnerability of capitol ships, as demonstrated in World War II. Mitchell liked to live the good life and to supplement his income, he did a lot of writing that cut against the grain of the mind set of the military commanders. What really got him in trouble was his press release after the disastrous loss of the airship Shenandoah and the loss of a Navy seaplane attempting a nonstop flight from San Diego to Hawaii. His press release was so scathing of the military command, there was no option but a court-martial for insubordination. Mitchell had many good ideas, but he went about pushing them forward the wrong way. He had a big mouth and no patience and in the end, got what he deserved.
                        A couple of interesting facts. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous WWI ace, was Mitchell's driver and Mitchell put him in the air. Douglas McArther was a member of the court-martial board. When asked after he had read the screenplay for the Mitchell movie if he could accurately play Mitchell, Gary Cooper replied, "I get paid to play myself".

                        4 out of 5 stars Aviation History.......2004-09-09

                        In another century another age we forget how far American aviation history and the American military has progressed since the World War I era. Waller creates a vivid picture of the Billy Mitchell trial during the period that gripped the nation. The book provides interesting background on the man who challenged the Washington establishment and gives a view of military policy and capability just before and after World War I. Given the amount and length of the trial material Waller does a good job of presenting the both sides evenly. Mitchell was a compelling but flawed man who argued for an aviation future while living values more akin to his time.
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