Working with Apache Tomcat Training Course

Introduction to JEE 7 standard

• Overview
• Versions differences
• Application Servers types and profile compliance

• What is the WWW
• HTML basics ( Form, HREF, ...)
• TCP basics and the HTTP protocol ( GET, POST, ...)

• Older versions comparison
• Layout,
• Deployment Descriptor XML
• Deployment Descriptor Java
• Servlets
• ;
  • The Life cycle
  • HttpServletRequest , HttpServletResponse
  • Configuring a Servlet in a Servlet Container
  • Understanding the Contexts/Scopes
  • Session Context / HttpSession
  • Application Context / ServletContext
  • Request Context / HttpServletRequest
• Java Server Pages (JSPs )
  • Overview
  • JSP Directives, JSP Scripting,
  • Configuring JSP groups in XML
  • JSP written in XML format and advantages
• Filters and Listeners
• Thread safety tips for webapps
• Multipart
• Asynch Way
• What is a WebSocket

• The Apache Tomcat Servlet ContaineServer
• Overview packages / versions / standard versions / ...
• The Tomcat Manager Web Application
• Specialized Realm Implementations
• Tomcat Valves

• Server
• Service
• Connector
• Engine
• Host
• Context
• Connector
• Engine
• Host
• Context

• Requirements for Installing and Configuring Tomcat
• Installing Tomcat Using Windows Service Installer
• Manually Installing on Windows
• Installing to Linux

• The Tomcat Directory Structure
• Tomcat bin scripts
• Passing Runtime Options to Catalina Script
• Tomcat Configuration Files
• Java Web Applications
• Manually Deploying Web Applications to Tomcat
• Deploying WAR Archive
• Other Methods of Deployment
• Configuring Hosts and Contexts
• Configuring Hosts
• Configuring Web Application Contexts
• Working with Eclipse IDE
• NetBeans way
• How to Debug remote Tomcat Instance

• Gaining Access to the Manager Web Application
• Accessing the Manager Web Application Using Web Interface
• Listing Deployed Web Applications
• Checking Server Status
• Deploying a New Web Application
• Reloading an Existing Web Application
• Sessions
• Stop, Start, Undeploy

• Introduction to Ant,
• Installing Ant
• Configuring Tomcat’s Ant Tasks
• Running Ant Scripts

• Requirements
• Implementing a Sample Application with Embedded Tomcat
• Testing Servlets with Embedded Tomcat

• Introduction to JNDI
• JNDI API Overview
• Tomcat JNDI Configuration
• Introducing JDBC
• Configuring the Database Connection
• Configuring Data Source as a JNDI Resource
• Configuring Mail Session
• Introducing JavaMail
• Configuring Mail Session as a JNDI Resource

• Introduction and alternatives and motivations
• Using Apache HTTP or IIS in front
  • AJP, ModProxy, Jconnector, ...
• Example on how to set up multiple Tomcat Instances, with different configurations (Java version, Memory, ...) on same host.

• MVC Model 2 with standard components
• Examples of architectures
  • Overview Spring MVC way
  • Pure JEE way
  • MVC on client side with angular

• Using Ant
• Using Maven

• The Java garbage collector
• Load-Testing Tools
  • Jmeter
• External and Internal tuning tips
  • Sizing JVM Heap
  • Using JAVA_OPTS
  • ...