In this two-part article by Damodar Chetty, we look at how a Tomcat instance can be started using either the standard script-based mechanism or the alternative Run/Debug configuration. We look at the various class loader hierarchies that are set up during the initialization process. We also look at how the Apache Commons Digester library provides a convenient way of converting an XML file into a Java object graph.
We end this article with an example of a web application that is deployed into our Tomcat instance…
