"Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide" is regarded as the authoritative, comprehensive guide to the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0, also known as the Sun Web Server. Authors William Nelson, Arvind Srinivasan, and Murthy Chintalapati provide the essentials on implementing and supporting the Web Server within a single node or across an entire server farm.

The Sun Java System Web Server is a freely-available, high-performance, feature-rich HTTP server that provides a simple, user-friendly administration interface. In addition to being a high-performance static-content delivery engine for items such as images and HTML documents, the Sun Java System Web Server also supports various server-side languages and technologies such as JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Active Server Pages (ASP) and Coldfusion. Web Server provides comprehensive command-line interface support, consolidated configuration, enhanced security with elliptic curve cryptography support, and clustering support. It also comes with a robust built-in migration tool that helps migrate applications and configurations from Web Server 6.0 and Web Server 6.1 to Web Server 7.0.

Within its 600 pages, this book demonstrates:

• How to use Web Server 7.0's new features including core server improvements (ie CMT scalability), manageability enhancements, security improvements, Web application features, ease of deployment, interoperability and protocol compliance, internationalization and localization, among others

• A walk-through of initial installations and upgrades

• Customizing the Web Server's HTTP request processing for specific environments

• Building dynamic content with scripting languages and server-side Java-based extensions

• Creating secure dynamic Web 2.0 sites with dynamic content and database technologies

• Monitoring server instances in live production environments and optimizing performance

• Resolving server errors and other anomalies in Web Server runtime behavior

• Using actual server configuration files from Sun's large-scale deployments

• Using the detailed reference information on Web Server's main server configuration file

The book promises to answer the needs of developers, administrators, and architects. For administrators, this will server as a handy guide to day-to-day administrative tasks such as installation, configuration, cluster-management, monitoring and troubleshooting. It also presents insights to developers and architects wanting to understand Sun Java System Web Server internals and extend the server functionality with a variety of dynamic content technologies. Information for deployers on sizing/tuning and reference configurations used in Web 2.0 style sites are also included.

Available from Amazon, as well as Amazon's Kindle, interested readers can peruse the table of contents, first few pages, index, back cover, and a "Surprise Me!" section before committing to its purchase.

More Information

"Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide" - Amazon Web site

The book's Companion Website

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 6

Sun Java System Web Server - Sun product page [...read more...]

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