This manual includes contributions from many members of the Tomcat Project developer community. The following authors have provided significant content:

• Craig R. McClanahan (craigmcc@apache.org)

The information presented is divided into the following sections:

• Introduction - Briefly describes the information covered here, with links and references to other sources of information.
• Installation - Covers acquiring and installing the required software components to use Tomcat for web application development.
• Deployment Organization - Discusses the standard directory layout for a web application (defined in the Servlet API Specification), the Web Application Deployment Descriptor, and options for integration with Tomcat in your development environment.
• Source Organization - Describes a useful approach to organizing the source code directories for your project, and introduces the build.xml used by Ant to manage compilation.
• Development Processes - Provides brief descriptions of typical development processes utilizing the recommended deployment and source organizations.
• Example Application - This directory contains a very simple, but functionally complete, "Hello, World" application built according to the principles described in this manual. You can use this application to practice using the described techniques.