I am not certain if I am understaind you correctly. But you seemed
trying to understand the relationship between J2SE and J2EE.
The J2SE is kinda JDK and the J2EE is a set of extensions for the
server side applications, so called Enterprise Edition(EE). And the
Servlet and JSP are just part of
I do the first one, but I am not using EJB or other j2ee functions at this
time. If you are just using serlvets and don't plan on installing an ap
server like jboss then my advice would be the first one. I believe the
servlet.jar comes with topcat you may have to point your dev env (CLASSPATH)