Title: Bad book to setup DBCP
Product review: This book gives a speedstart in getting high level architecture of Tomcat 5. Its discussion, even though not comprehensive, can make you can tell the difference between a valve, a service, an instance, and a server.However, this book fails to provide a tested and consistent example on setting up DBCP (Apache Database Connection Pooling). Seems the information was extracted only from Apache DBCP website and reworded (such as replacing jndi/myoracle to jndi/wroxTC5) WITHOUT giving actual tested examples. I have Tomcat 5.0.28 running and the DBCP example mentioned 3 pages in chapter 8 and another 3 pages in chapter 14 does not work. I went looking for errata in the website but couldnt find it in the publisher's website.It is rather disappointing and discouraging when you put your trust to a book that in the end gives bad examples.
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