Thorough, advanced-level guide to building and deploying powerful enterprise applications on the Tomcat open-source Web application server. A comprehensive book that covers everything from Tomcat installation to advanced topics relating to deploying Tomcat at the enterprise level. Shows the reader how to exploit new Tomcat 5.x capabilities to optimize performance and enhance scalability and reliability. Author has deployed over one hundred complex Web applications on Tomcat. 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. Lajos Moczar is president of Galatea IS, a consulting company specializing in Apache, Tomcat, and Cocoon consulting, support, and training services. He has been using Tomcat since it was a commercial product at Sun Microsystems, and has set up, configured and otherwise maintained numerous production Tomcat instances. Moczar has developed and deployed well over one hundred complex Web applications in Tomcat, and currently consults with various ISPs on Tomcat-related issues. He also maintains popular online Tomcat guides on his site, and is the co-author of Cocoon Developer's Handbook , 0-672-32257-9.