Summary

In this chapter, you saw the issues relevant to Web application configuration. Many of the configuration issues will depend on access to well-documented and well-designed application specifications or, if these aren’t available, working hand-in-hand with a developer. As the application grows older, there will tend to be an increasing reliance on the experience of the administrator in the production environment to guide the administration of the application. Collaboration between the developers and system administration will necessarily increase.

It’s likely that the administration of a Web application will mostly concern security configuration. This will also increasingly include the use of filters to given URL patterns, session configuration, error page configuration, the addition of tag libraries, and the administration of application initialization parameters to adapt to the server.