Tomcat

One interesting book I am reading these days is How Tomcat Works by Budi Kurniawan and Paul Deck. Unlike other books on the topic, this book concentrates on Tomcat internals, making it a very attractive reading for developers interested in behind the scenes working. Instead of user centric, the book is developer centric. It assumes a fair knowledge of Java and the Servlet API, and creates sample applications to unravel the details. It starts with building a simple Java based client and server, and takes on from there to describe the Tomcat connector architecture, main classes and their interaction.