O’Reilly Learning Paths – Enterprise Web Programming in Java

Beginning Java Web Development by Martin Kalin

In this course, Java wizard Marty Kalin guides you through everything you need to know about Java web development. You’ll start with web apps and databases using JSP and POJOs. From there, Marty will teach you about servlets, including the flow of control in servlets, code analysis, and concurrency issues in Java web apps. Finally, you’ll learn about web app security, including wire-level security and user authentication and role authorization. Once you’ve finished this, you’ll be ready to develop Java web apps on your own.

Learning Apache Tomcat by Martin Kalin

Sysadmins love the lightweight Apache Tomcat because it’s a no-fuss web server with very reasonable defaults that are easy to customize. In this course, Java and Tomcat wizard Marty Kalin will show you everything you need to know to get Tomcat up and running. You’ll install Tomcat, learn how to publish Java web apps to the server, look at troubleshooting methods, master techniques for mitigating security concerns, and finally explore advanced topics like remote monitoring, virtual hosting, and CGI.