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| <p>Congratulations! You've decided to (or been told to) learn how to | |
| build web applications using servlets and JSP pages, and picked the | |
| Tomcat server to use for your learning and development. But now what | |
| do you do?</p> | |
| <p>This manual is a primer covering the basic steps of using Tomcat to | |
| set up a development environment, organize your source code, and then | |
| build and test your application. It does not discuss architectures or | |
| recommended coding practices for web application development, | |
| or provide in depth instructions on operating the development | |
| tools that are discussed. References to sources of additional information | |
| are included in the following subsections.</p> | |
| <p>The discussion in this manual is aimed at developers who will be using | |
| a text editor along with command line tools to develop and debug their | |
| applications. As such, the recommendations are fairly generic -- but you | |
| should easily be able to apply them in either a Windows-based or Unix-based | |
| development environment. If you are utilizing an Integrated Development | |
| Environment (IDE) tool, you will need to adapt the advice given here to | |
| the details of your particular environment.</p> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Links"><strong>Links</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p>The following links provide access to selected sources of online | |
| information, documentation, and software that is useful in developing | |
| web applications with Tomcat.</p> | |
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| <li><a href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr245/index.html">http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr245/</a> - | |
| <i>JavaServer Pages (JSP) Specification, Version 2.1</i>. Describes | |
| the programming environment provided by standard implementations | |
| of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. In conjunction with | |
| the Servlet API Specification (see below), this document describes | |
| what a portable API page is allowed to contain. Specific | |
| information on scripting (Chapter 9), tag extensions (Chapter 7), | |
| and packaging JSP pages (Appendix A) is useful. The Javadoc | |
| API Documentation is included in the specification, and with the | |
| Tomcat download.<br><br></li> | |
| <li><a href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr154/index2.html">http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr154/index2.html</a> - | |
| <i>Servlet API Specification, Version 2.5</i>. Describes the | |
| programming environment that must be provided by all servlet | |
| containers conforming to this specification. In particular, you | |
| will need this document to understand the web application | |
| directory structure and deployment file (Chapter 9), methods of | |
| mapping request URIs to servlets (Chapter 11), container managed | |
| security (Chapter 12), and the syntax of the <code>web.xml</code> | |
| Web Application Deployment Descriptor (Chapter 13). The Javadoc | |
| API Documentation is included in the specification, and with the | |
| Tomcat download.<br><br></li> | |
| </ul> | |
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