A Developer's Guide to the Java Web Server : Building Effective and Scalable Server-Side Applications

The Java(TM) Web Server has emerged as a powerful tool for creating dynamic, interactive Web applications. Web sites using cutting-edge servlet technology with the Java Web Server have better performance, security, scalability, and cross-platform flexibility than those using CGI and other server-side technologies.

The Developer's Guide to the Java(TM) Web Server provides a comprehensive description of the Java Web Server and specific techniques for putting this technology to work. The book describes the underlying servlet technology, reviews Java Web Server features, explores design options, and demonstrates the development process.

Drawing on their unparalleled real-world experience creating one of the largest web sites using the Java Web Server, the authors present many proven design and coding techniques. In addition, a plethora of working examples form the framework for an application that features registration, communication with existing Web services, error reporting, and templating.

In this book, you will find detailed information on topics such as:

-- The Servlet API
Each Java Web Server feature thoroughly explained
Creating, configuring, and managing servlets
Templating and session tracking
Writing thread-safe code
Optimizing code for the Java virtual machine and Java class libraries
Communicating with external applications with sockets, CORBA, RMI, e-mail, and JDBC(TM)
Java Web Server application design
Debugging, stress testing, and performance tuning
Customizing security
Building services

The accompanying CD-ROM includes the sample applications and code examples from the book.

With its focus on practical techniques for solving real-world challenges, this book gives you the knowledge and skills to apply the Java Web Server to your own server-side Web applications.

Dan Woods is Chief Technology Officer at TheStreet, a leading on-line financial publication.

Larne Pekowsky, was formerly director of editorial technology at Time, Inc. New Media, where he helped to create one of the world's top ten news sites. He is now with CapitalThinking--a premier business-to-business financial site that makes extensive use of server-side Java. In addition, he is co-author of The Developer's Guide to the Java™ Web Server™.

Tom Snee is a Senior Consultant at Random Walk Computing, Inc., a leading consulting and development organization delivering custom Java solutions to global financial service enterprises.

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