Szkolenie Tomcat

Tomcat Overview

• Quick overview of Apache

• Apache Software Foundation

• Jakarta Project

• Tomcat Licensing

• J2EE Technologies

• Java Web Development

• Servlet/JSP Containers

Java Web Applications

• An Overview of Servlets

• The Advantages of Servlets & The Lifecycle 

• JavaServer Pages

• JSP, JavaBeans and JSP Tag Libraries

• MVC frameworks 

Installing Tomcat

• Downloading and Installing Apache Tomcat

• Download and install a JVM, Download Tomcat, Download and install Ant

• Windows installer

• Java memory management and tweaking the JVM for performance

Tomcat Directories

• Tomcat Installation Directories, Tomcat Directory Structure, The bin Directory, Common and shared Directories

• The conf Directory, logs Directory. server directory, work Directory, temp Directory, webapps Directory

• Stucture of the Web Application Directory Structure

• Deploying HTML and JSP Pages and Web Context

• JSP Page and the Generated Code

• Deploying a Web App

ConfiguringTomcat

• Configuration of Tomcat and looking at the Techniques

• Tomcat's Component Architecture

• The <Server> Element, <Service> Element, <Connector> Element, <Engine> Element, <Host> Element, <Context> Element, <Realm> Element, <Valve> Element, <Listener> Element, <Loader> Element, <Manager> Element

• Server.xml File

• Modifying server.xml

Web Applications

• Web Application Administration & Deploying

• Directory Structure of a Web App

• web.xml configuration file

• Deployment Descriptors

• The <web-app></web-app> Element

• Mapping a Servlet to a URL

• The <resource-ref></resource-ref> Element

• The <env-entry></env-entry> Element

• The <ejb-ref></ejb-ref> Element

• A 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 Application using the Tomcat Manager

• Starting the Tomcat Manager and looking at Tomcat Manager

• Looking at the Manager Section

• Applications, Deploy, Server Information

• Creating a WAR File

• Lab 4: Deploying a WAR File

• Java Management Extensions (JMX) on Tomcat

• Tomcat integration with Ant

Advanced Features

• Using Some of the Advanced Features of Tomcat

• Valves, Access Log Valve, Single Sign-on Valve

• Remote Address Filter and Remote Host Filter

• Request Dumper Valve

• Configuring the JNDI Resources

• JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface and Defining a JNDI Resource

• The <environment></environment>Element and The <resource></resource>Element

• Configuring a JavaMail Session

• Global Resources

JDBC Connectivity

• Configuring Tomcat to Connect to a Database

• Overview of JDBC

• JDBC Drivers

• Connecting to a Database and Connection Pools

• Download and Install MySQL

• Configure MySQL for Tomcat

• Create a Database in MySQL

• Download and Deploy a JDBC Driver

• Defining a DataSource in Tomcat and Defining a Data Source Manually

• Modifying the Deployment Descriptor

• Detecting and closing leaked database connections

Tomcat Security

• Looking at Security on Tomcat and the configuration

• Security Considerations

• File System Security and Filesystem Recommendations

• Java Security Manager

• Granting Permissions to Java Apps and looking at Java Permissions

• Creating and Adding Your Own Policies

• Enabling the Java Security Manager

• Security Manager Tips and Security Realms

• Looking at the different Types of Realms and Configuring a Realm

• Users and Roles (authentication and authorization)

• Creating a Data Source Realm

• The protection of passwords

• FORM-based authentication

• Configuring Tomcat for SSL

• Requiring SSL in applications

Connecting

• Connect Tomcat to Apache

• Looking at Connectors

• HTTP Connectors

• Advantages of Using a Web Server

• Connector Protocols

• Configure an AJP Connector

• Download mod_jk

• Create the mod_jk.conf file

• Start Tomcat

• Create a Worker

• Configure httpd.conf

• Test 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

• Shared Hosting

• Tomcat Virtual Hosting

• Configure Tomcat to enable virtual hosting as a stand-alone server

• Configure Tomcat to enable virtual hosting using jk2 or webapp.

• Configure Tomcat as Stand-alone

• Configure Tomcat with AJP

• Separate JVM for Each Host

Load Testing

• JMeter Application

• Load Testing with JMeter

• Install and run JMeter

• Creating a Test Plan

• Configure the Thread Group and adding a task

• Configure the HTTP Request

• Add a Report Listener

• Run the Test Plan

• Viewing the Results