Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
by Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

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        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
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This page was updated April 19, 2007.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 



(52)  1st code segment on top of page;
The connectionURL attribute has an & instead of a ; before the string "password" 
in its value; this is not correct.  
Changing it to a value of ; causes the example to work fine.


{52}  much of the page;
Since the book's printing, the JDBCStore has changed to also include a database
column to hold the app_name.   This column name can be configured via the JDBCStore
attribute named sessionAppCol.   This was added to allow sessions from different
contexts to store their sessions in different parts of the database so that they
don't try to de-serialize sessions that don't belong to them (which caused
exceptions).

This link describes this parameter:
http://jakarta.apache.org/9780596003180/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/manager.html


{56}  4th paragraph;
The book says "the web application's Context element (in web.xml)"
but according to the 9780596003180 docs and the distributed server.xml and
web.xml files, that element goes in the server.xml, not web.xml.


(110) Last code example;
There is no whitespace between PATH and URL in the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse 
directives. It will not work without whitespace and is confusing.


[184]  Table 7.7;
docBase and path attribute meanings should be reversed.


[184]  Footnote a;
Boolean logic of the footnote is completely reversed. Substitute "true" and "false"
for each other in every case.