Tomcat Architecture

Tomcat is a container that is made up of pluggable components that fit together in a nested manner. Tomcat is configurable you can set such settings to use specialized filters, change port numbers and IP address bindings, security settings, etc. You should always change the default setting when using in a production environment especially the security aspects, I will touch on this in the Tomcat security section. At first Tomcat configuration files appear cryptic and difficult to understand, but in future articles I will try to unpick the complexity of Tomcat into a easy understandable format.  more...