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