Professional Java Servlets 2.3

Java servlets are fast becoming indispensable enterprise components, as they provide a means to build scalable and portable business services that communicate over the Web. This book provides a comprehensive guide to developing applications based on the Java Servlet 2.3 API, a part of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3.

The book reveals how and where servlets fit into an enterprise solution, and addresses issues such as security, scalability, performance and design. It walks you through the API covering the role of all the classes and interfaces and provides lots of example applications to demonstrate servlets in action. The book also covers the key role that servlets play in the new web services development model.

What does this book cover?

*The servlet container and the services it provides
*Creating and deploying web applications in Tomcat
*Persisting the state of servlets
*Filters and Event Listeners
*Security and Container Authentication
*Debugging servlets
*The effects of classloading and synchronization on the behavior of web applications
*Optimizing the performance of web applications
*Using servlets as agents with web services

Andrew Harbourne-Thomas is an independent consultant focussing on J2EE application design and development and project management. He started working life as an economist, followed by several years working as an independent consultant to top companies including Microsoft, focussing on technology, strategy and project management.

Sam Dalton is a Technical Architect, and has worked with Java and related technologies for a number of years, in various industries, including investment banking, insurance, and retail eCommerce. Sam was fortunate enough to present and co-present several very popular sessions at JavaOne in 2001.

Simon Brown is a Technical Architect working in London and has been using Java since 1996. During this time he has been involved with many Java developments, acting as technical lead, mentor and trainer. Outside of work he has spoken at several Java events including JavaOne, has been published on JavaWorld and co-authored the 2nd edition of Professional JSP.

For the past five years, Bjarki Holm has been working as a software engineer at VYRE Corporation in Reykjavík, developing on-line design and content management systems using Servlets with an Oracle backend. Currently, he is taking time off from work to pursue his studies of electrical engineering and occasional writing opportunities at Wrox.

Tony Loton is Principal Consultant/Director of LOTONtech Limited. He works through his company as an independent consultant, training instructor, and freelance author, and the current areas of interest at LOTONtech include Java-based speech synthesis and the automated extraction of information from the World Wide Web.

John Bell is a Principal Engineer at Latitude360, a subsidiary of RWD Technologies. He has been providing technology solutions for over 20 years and has been developing Java based web systems for the past several years. His primary areas of expertise are in object-oriented development and distributed processing systems.

For two decades, Sing Li has been an active author, consultant, instructor, entrepreneur, and speaker. His wide-ranging experience spans distributed architectures, web services, multi-tiered server systems, computer telephony, universal messaging, and embedded systems.

Meeraj Kunnumpurath currently works as a Senior Information Specialist with EDS where he designs enterprise helpdesk and billing systems using J2EE and XML.

Subrahmanyam Allamaraju is a Senior Engineer with BEA Systems. His interest in modeling lead him from his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering to object-oriented programming, and then to distributed computing and software architecture.