Re: Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
David Smith wrote: I have no doubt Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is very good although I would suspect it's targeted to the tomcat servlet container specifically rather than java servlets and jsp. At the point you are at, a book that targets java servlets and jsp is better than a book that targ

Tomcat books (was Re: Tomcat and servlet the nightmare)

2007-08-07 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
David Smith wrote: I have to tell you guy, true nightmares exist in answering questions from people who obviously haven't made any attempt at learning the technology before throwing stuff together and asking questions. Please do us a favor and get a recently written book on tomcat. What bo

Re: BasicDataSourceFactory.class where? (Tomcat 5.5, RHEL)

2007-08-02 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
David Smith wrote: ... or at least post your question on a Redhat or jPackage list. We're not known for being all warm and fuzzy toward the tomcat rpm install packages. They've done things to tomcat in the process of packaging I know I wouldn't recommend. Apparently, yes. Using a plain Tomc

BasicDataSourceFactory.class where? (Tomcat 5.5, RHEL)

2007-08-01 Thread Juergen Nickelsen
Hello, for an application I am testing, I have my first contact with Tomcat, version 5.5.23 on RHEL 4 update 5, as installed from the package tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.3. What shall I say? It does not work yet. :-/ The main problem seems to be that Tomcat complains on startup about a missing