best acknoledgement ever: "I couldn't have written my portion of this book without my wife, Carmina. She's always shown confidence in me over the years, and with her I'm happier than I've ever been. Cutie, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for all of your help with this book!"

ant can be used to automate build processes for web servlets (building servlets for web deployment can be tedious)

good universal methods for tuning for performance:

"

Decide what needs to be measured.

Decide how to measure.

Measure.

Understand the implications of what you learned.

Tinker with the configuration in ways that are expected to improve the measurements.

Measure and compare with previous measurements.

Go back to step 4.

"

DNS Lookups cause more traffic and decreased performance.

default web servers are on port 80 - the official port of the WWW

it is tough to integrate apache's httpd and tomcat (even though there are supposed reasons to do so).

controlling tomcat (like most server utilities) is done by editing configuration files and restarting tomcat

clustering is dividing the work the computuer has to do between mulitple servers.