Apache Tomcat Administration Training Course

Tomcat Overview

• Overview of Apache
• The Apache Software Foundation
• The Jakarta Project
• Tomcat Licensing
• J2EE Technologies
• Java Web Development
• Servlet and JSP Containers

Java Web Applications

• Servlets Overview
• Advantages of Servlets and Their Lifecycle
• JavaServer Pages
• JSP, JavaBeans, and JSP Tag Libraries
• MVC Frameworks

Installing Tomcat

• Downloading and Installing Apache Tomcat
• Downloading and installing a JVM, Tomcat, and Ant
• Windows Installer Usage
• Java memory management and JVM performance tuning

Tomcat Directories

• Tomcat Installation Directories, Directory Structure, bin Directory, and Common/Shared Directories
• The conf, logs, server, work, temp, and webapps Directories
• Web Application Directory Structure
• Deploying HTML and JSP Pages and Web Contexts
• JSP Pages and Generated Code
• Deploying a Web Application

Configuring Tomcat

• Tomcat Configuration Techniques
• Tomcat's Component Architecture
• The Server, Service, Connector, Engine, Host, Context, Realm, Valve, Listener, Loader, and Manager Elements
• The server.xml File
• Modifying server.xml

Web Applications

• Web Application Administration and Deployment
• Web App Directory Structure
• web.xml Configuration File
• Deployment Descriptors
• The web-app Element
• Mapping a Servlet to a URL
• The resource-ref Element
• The env-entry Element
• The ejb-ref Element
• Sample web.xml File
• Deploying a Web Application
• Tomcat's Default conf/web.xml File
• Tuning Default JSP and Static-content Servlets

Tomcat Manager

• Deploying and Managing Web Applications via the Tomcat Manager
• Starting and Exploring the Tomcat Manager
• Exploring the Manager Section
• Applications, Deploy, and Server Information
• Creating a WAR File
• Lab 4: Deploying a WAR File
• Java Management Extensions (JMX) on Tomcat
• Tomcat Integration with Ant

Advanced Features

• Utilizing Advanced Tomcat Features
• Valves, Access Log Valve, and Single Sign-on Valve
• Remote Address Filter and Remote Host Filter
• Request Dumper Valve
• Configuring JNDI Resources
• JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface and Defining a JNDI Resource
• The environment and resource Elements
• Configuring a JavaMail Session
• Global Resources

JDBC Connectivity

• Configuring Tomcat for Database Connections
• JDBC Overview
• JDBC Drivers
• Connecting to a Database and Connection Pools
• Downloading and Installing MySQL
• Configuring MySQL for Tomcat
• Creating a Database in MySQL
• Downloading and Deploying a JDBC Driver
• Defining a DataSource in Tomcat and Manual Data Source Definition
• Modifying the Deployment Descriptor
• Detecting and Closing Leaked Database Connections

Tomcat Security

• Examining Security Configurations on Tomcat
• Security Considerations
• File System Security and Recommendations
• Java Security Manager
• Granting Permissions to Java Applications and Reviewing Java Permissions
• Creating and Adding Custom Policies
• Enabling the Java Security Manager
• Security Manager Tips and Security Realms
• Types of Realms and Configuring a Realm
• Users and Roles (Authentication and Authorization)
• Creating a Data Source Realm
• Password Protection
• FORM-based Authentication
• Configuring Tomcat for SSL
• Requiring SSL in Applications

Connecting

• Connecting Tomcat to Apache
• Understanding Connectors
• HTTP Connectors
• Advantages of Using a Web Server
• Connector Protocols
• Configuring an AJP Connector
• Downloading mod_jk
• Creating the mod_jk.conf File
• Starting Tomcat
• Creating a Worker
• Configuring httpd.conf
• Testing the Setup
• Load Balancing Applications Across Multiple Tomcat Instances
• Issues with Load Balancing
• Server Affinity via Sticky Sessions
• Shared Session Storage
• Replicated Sessions via Tomcat Clustering
• Shared Hosting
• Tomcat Virtual Hosting
• Configuring Tomcat for Stand-alone Virtual Hosting
• Configuring Tomcat for Virtual Hosting Using jk2 or webapp
• Configuring Tomcat as a Stand-alone Server
• Configuring Tomcat with AJP
• Separate JVM for Each Host

Load Testing

• JMeter Application
• Load Testing with JMeter
• Installing and Running JMeter
• Creating a Test Plan
• Configuring the Thread Group and Adding a Task
• Configuring the HTTP Request
• Adding a Report Listener
• Running the Test Plan
• Viewing the Results