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My new book

My new book - Professional Apache Tomcat 5 released recently. I had a pretty good set of co-authors (Sing, Ben, Jon, Amit) to work with, and I think it shows!

This is one of the first set of books from Wrox Press after its acquisition by John Wiley & Sons, and this time around it’s a better quality of books. I’m not saying Wrox’ books were all bad (I am a long time Wrox author myself!), but that Wrox’s drive to bring books to market as soon as possible sometimes lead to not so good titles, and uneven writing across chapters. The multiple authors (sometimes 10+ to a book) didn’t help matters either. Wiley does things the traditional way- smaller teams when there are multiple author books, better cohesion between authors, a uniform writing style; the works.

This is the second edition of the book (Professional Apache Tomcat was the first edition), and some of what's new in the book is listed below:

• Complete coverage of Tomcat 5.x. This book still retains the Tomcat 4.x-related sections, however, recognizing that it’s going to be around for some time.
• A new chapter on JMX support in Tomcat
• A new chapter on Tomcat clustering.
• A new chapter on embedded Tomcat
• Coverage of the new JK2 Connector
• Expanded coverage of security concepts in Tomcat
• Coverage of support for Tomcat in popular IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans/Sun Java Studio, and JBuilder

Those who have bought this book, or some of my other books, please let me know what you think.