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DEVELOPMENT // JAVA // TOMCAT
Alas Poor Tomcat, I Knew Him Well
Or… How I finally found my groove again for web application development
Embedded Tomcat can be configured with all features of the standalone server, but it is quicker and easier to develop with, restart, and with a few configuration items will run in both the IDE and from the distributable without repackaging a war file — with in-build JSP recompilation.
In The Beginning…
…There was the world wide web, well, at least I was there when the internet started to explode into the public hearts and minds, and I was lucky enough to be just starting out in my career in software engineering.
Today the web is omnipresent, but there was a time when this was not so… when being able to build and deliver web-pages was considered the thing to do in software engineering (think of the whole dot com boom and subsequent implosion — however — this is not an article about that).
Imagine a time when the web was just starting and people were serving up content on web pages, Netscape Navigator ruled the internet browsing market and you could connect to information and people from around the world.
