Comprehensive Tomcat, terse and code heavy

In classic Wrox fashion this book is rich with code examples and a little light on exposition. It's a rocket ride through installing Tomcat, building servlets and extensions, and then into web application security.

It's comprehensive in it's coverage of Tomcat, and rarely strays from that mark. There is a small foray into database development, but that is mainly around connection pooling, which is a related topic.

Overall an excellent introduction to Tomcat. My only complaints are that the book could have relied less on code itself for exposition, and that the reference value could have been expanded on a little bit.

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