Professional Apache Tomcat 6 is primarily targeted toward administrators and engineers responsible for Tomcat configuration, performance tuning, system security, or deployment architecture. This book doesn’t cover Web application development using Tomcat. A lot of other books, such as our Beginning JavaServer Pages (Wrox Press, ISBN 0-7645-7485-X), fulfill this need. Instead, this book focuses on its primary audience — i.e., Tomcat administrators — and tries to provide what this audience needs as best as it can.
This is the third edition in our Apache Tomcat series. Our first edition, Professional Apache Tomcat , covered Tomcat versions 3 and 4. The second edition, Professional Apache Tomcat 5, focused primarily on Tomcat 5. Since then, Tomcat has released a new edition, and hence the need for this book.
