The Developer's Guide to the Java™ Web Server™

Dan Woods is Chief Technology Officer at TheStreet.com, a leading on-line financial publication. Larne Pekowsky is the former vice president of engineering and chief software architect at CapitalThinking, where he led development with open source technologies. He is the coauthor of The Developer's Guide to the Java™ Web Server™ (Addison-Wesley, 1999) and the author of JavaServer Pages, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and is currently pursuing a degree in physics at Stony Brook University. 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.

(All chapters conclude with "Conclusion".) Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. I. OVERVIEW. 1. The Big Picture. Introduction to the Java Web Server. Application Development and the JWS. The JWSs Powerful Features. First-Hand Experience with JWS. Web Development Techniques. Perl Code Executed via CGI. FAST CGI. NSAPI. Netscape WAI. ISAPI. Active Server Pages. The Java Web Server. Overview of the Java Web Server. Configuration and Administration. Loading and Invoking Servlets. Monitoring. Security. Templates. Java Server Pages. Session Tracking. Java Server Infrastructure. Overview of the Servlet API. What Are Servlets. Servlets for the HTTP Protocol. 2. Introduction to the Sample Applications. Project Plan Archive. Overview. Object Model. Simple Gaming Engine. II. A GUIDE TO ADMINISTRATION AND FEATURES. 3. Administrators Guide to the Java Web Server. The Java Web Server Directory Structure. Installing the Java Web Server. Running the Administration Tool. Servlets. Creating Servlets. Compiling Servlets. Invoking and Loading Servlets. Loading Servlets in Advance. Where Should Servlets Live. 4. Configuring and Managing the Java Web Server. Administration Basics. Service Interface. Setup. Network. Site. Session Tracking. Service Tuning. File Aliases. Servlet Aliases. Virtual Hosts. MIME Types. Log Files. Monitor. Log Output. Log Statistics. Resource Usage. Security. Users. Groups. Access Control Lists. Resources. Servlets. 5. HTML Templates. How JWS Templates Use Normal HTML Files. Definitions Files. Inheritance. Template Filters. 6. Java Server Pages. Structure of Java Server Pages. Coding for Java Server Pages. Declaring Variables in JSP. Using if then and Looping Statements in JSP. Expressions in Java Server Pages. Printing HTML from Java Statements. Other Coding Topics. Running JSP and Catching Compile and Execution Errors. 7. Session Tracking. Client-Side State. URL Encoding. Form Variables. Cookies. Server-Side State. Sessions and Session Trackings API Description. API Description. Using Session Objects with a Sequence of Servlets. Using Session Tracking without Cookies. Using Session Tracking with JSP. Using Session Listener. 8. Internationalization and Localization. Internationalization API Overview. Sample Programs. Example 1: Resource Bundle Stored in a Class File. Example 2: Resource Bundle in a Property File. Example 3: Localizing Dates. Example 4: Compound Messages. Example 5: Multilocale Servlets. III. CODING TECHNIQUES. 9. Servlets and the Servlet API. A Closer Look at Servlet Classes. javax.servlet Interfaces and Classes. javax.servlet.http Interfaces and Classes. Servlet Life Cycle. Class Loading. Construction. init() Method. service() Method. Methods for Handling Specific HTTP Requests. destroy() Method. Garbage Collection and finalize() Method. Simple Servlet. HttpServletRequest. Cookies. HttpUtils. HttpServletResponse. ServletConfig and ServletContext. Servlet Coding Techniques. Performance and the Servlet Classes. Threads and Serv