Summary

That was a lot to take in, but now that you are done, rest assured that you understand the overall architecture of Tomcat. We looked at some of the core building blocks of Tomcat and saw how a running Tomcat instance was composed of the various Top Level Components, Connectors, and Nested Components. In the next few chapters, we will take the request processing components that were identified in this chapter and examine them in a lot more detail. But before we get there, we have one more stop to make. In the next chapter, we will explore the bootstrapping process for Tomcat.