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How Tomcat Works, the book.

A few months back, maybe a year ago, I was contacted by Budi Kurniawan. Budi wanted advice on self publishing - I don't even remember what I told him, but he says it was helpful so there you are. Last week Budi contacted me to tell me he has successfully written and self published his first book, How Tomcat Works. You can buy it directly from Budi and get a 45% discount (www.brainysoftware.com) or from Amazon.com. How cool is that!?

Well, I've been reading Budi's book and I have to say that it's really excellent. I mean, I can't put the thing down! His writing style is really straight forward and engaging. The book is in need of some serious copy editing, that's for sure, but in many cases those little rough spots add to its home-grown charm.

Budi's book, How Tomcat Works teaches the reader exactly how the Apache Tomcat Servlet engine works. Budi starts with a very simple (3 classes) web server and slowly, over the course of a dozen chapters, enhances that example until it becomes Tomcat. It's a really cool approach to explaining the inner workings of a system and I just love it. I'm staying up way too late reading the thing and learning a lot about how Tomcat works.

You don't have to be rocket scientist to appreciate the book or understand it. If you have intermediate to advanced Java skills and know something about Servlets, you'll have no problem at all and you will learn a lot.

I hope the book continues to be as good as the first couple of chapters. If it is, I'll probably become its biggest booster. In my opinion, knowing how the software you use works under the covers is far more important than anything else you can learn. Patterns and APIs are fine, but nothing beats knowing how things really work. The best in the business have this type knowledge, so if you want to be the best at Servlet development, than this book is for you.

Comments

• Self-Publishing?
  Richard,

  Maybe you should write-up your observations / thoughts / lessons / etc. on the self-publishing
  business, and, er, publish, them on your website / blog / java.net / somewhere. There are probably a lot of other people that would find such info useful, and maybe the result would be more great books
  like the one you're describing here?

  --Phi

  Posted by: sprhodes on June 01, 2004 at 02:42 PM

• Self-Publishing?
  I just posted a blog about my experiences self-publishing. Thanks for the idea.

  Posted by: monsonhaefel on June 02, 2004 at 11:02 AM

• useful information on self-publishing.
  Check out this introduction article on Copy_editing:
  Copy_editing
  Content:
  1.Use of the term
  2.Tasks involved
  3.The influence of technology
  4.Required skills

  Posted by: copyediting on May 29, 2006 at 07:02 PM

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