Newbie resources
What resources would you recommend for a web and coding savvy user to get up to speed on using and configuring Tomcat. I'm strong in HTML and JSP coding, but weak in Unix. Using Mac OS X. I do try to use the supplied Tomcat docs, but they seem to me a bit more reference-like (which is great and useful, just not quite enough for this untrainable monkey). Also, why no FAQ for this list? The short time I've been here I've seen many of the same types of questions come up. Ken Martin -- To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Troubles with the list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie resources
2/27/02 11:03:19 PM, Ken Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What resources would you recommend for a web and coding savvy user to get up to speed on using and configuring Tomcat. I'm strong in HTML and JSP coding, but weak in Unix. Using Mac OS X. 1. Read the documentation. There's really a whole lot of information given. Start off with the the download page, where there's information on what to use to extract the contents of the archives. 2. Next, get the Servlet API and the JSP API specs from Sun's site. 3. Download the sources, and check out the developer documentation there. I do try to use the supplied Tomcat docs, but they seem to me a bit more reference-like (which is great and useful, just not quite enough for this untrainable monkey). The documentation currently contains information on configuring Tomcat for JNDI, Database connection pools, Also, why no FAQ for this list? The short time I've been here I've seen many of the same types of questions come up. 4. Search the archives first. You're right, most of the questions have indeed been answered first. Ken Martin -- To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Troubles with the list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Troubles with the list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie resources
On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 12:57 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: 1. Read the documentation. There's really a whole lot of information given... I do read the docs, but (not meaning to step on toes here) their not always clear to those who may not know the terminology. For example... I'm just messing with taglibs right now... the Tag Documentation section of the docs for the UtilityTags Tag Library have a very brief description of the tag and attributes, but not one example. Yes, each little table has the raw data necessary, but simply showing... prefix:if predicate=%= theTest % do this if true /prefix:if ...would communicate much more... and more effectively. Another example, from the taglibs tutorial... under the Hello World Tag Handler, the word package is refered to in the text and code sample, but I can see no description of what package is and what I should put there when creating my own taglib. Or using the http://jakarta.apache... url as an example in places where it should point to the user's files; confusing because in some cases it must be the jakarta url (like in the DOCTYPE) and in some cases not. A better example url for cases when it's a client file would be something like http://location/of/your/file or something. I'm really not trying to complain, I just want to show maybe a different perspective on the supplied docs, and why I was looking for a newbie slant on the information. Just like it's hard for me to remember what it's like not to know HTML structure inside and out, it may be hard for those making the docs to realize what someone coming in with a Tomcat tabla rasa. With best intentions and a desire to learn more, Ken Martin -- To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Troubles with the list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
