I'm probably more over-aged and no doubt underemployed than you. 1. The best thing to read are the developer docs http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html and they may also be found in your webapps.
2. The ANT script will with a little bit of work "automagicly" compile and copy your apps in the appropriate format. Any overage newbie who could figure out a SysAbend S 0c1, code in assembler, or work a keypunch, will be able to read these most Excellent docs and produce an app. 3. A couple of tricky areas that I encountered: a. In tomcat 4.1.12 they changed the defaults associated with servlets for security reasons. See the last para of the readme for the gory stuff. b. If you copy a WAR file which is sortof a "WebApplication Jar" file into webapps dir, when tomcat starts up it will unpack the war and create your appdir and deploy it. Before installing a new war, you should delete the "appdir" associated with the war. so for newbie.war make sure there is not a webapp/newbie when you start tomcat. c. you can also take build a webapp/newbie app with the appropriate structure and avoid the war. 4. Now this is a quickie for an oldie. The serious student will pick up copies of Hunter, Java Servlet Programming(O'Reilly), Hall,MoreServlets(Addison-Wesley) , Bergsten, JSPs(Oreilly) after he has read the docs aforementioned. Those docs will get you your Helloworld without having to complain that Tomcat is messing with your mind. Enjoy. It's a lot more fun than COBOL. At 01:53 PM 11/24/02, you wrote: > hi Michele, this is the over-aged Newbie!!! I like the way that you put things, >incidentally! I was just wondering if anyone could sort of start to point me in the >right/correct direction when it comes to creating JSP's and Servlets in the Tomcat >container!! That's all that I am asking for, frankly!! Do I possibly have to create >some kind of a "context" or just what exactly do I have to do?? And also, I might >"throw in" this pertinent question: How do I see a JSP/Servlet using the Visual Cafe >application ? >********************************************************************* > > On Sat 11/23, Michele Emmi wrote:From: Michele Emmi [mailto: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 >21:26:58 -0500Subject: Re: Over-aged Newbie needs some helpBut if he is an >"over-aged" newbie he might prefer book over reading off a >computer screen....god knows this over-aged newbie does! > >I am reading: > >Apache Jarkart-Tomcat by Goodwill >Sun one programming by Mogha and Bhargava > >Michele > > > > >>From: "Craig R. McClanahan" >>Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" >>To: Tomcat Users List >>Subject: Re: Over-aged Newbie needs some help >>Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:20:05 -0800 (PST) >> >> >> >>On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Steve R Burrus wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi, I need some degree of help/assistance from someone re. just how >>exactly you >> > go about starting to build or create JSP's or Servlets in the Tomcat >>container!!! >> > Do you first establish a "context" or something??! And, then if that's >>the case, >> > where do you go from there anyway? Incidentally, I am still "basking" in >>the >> > afterglow of just being able to install Tomcat!!! >> > >> >>One useful starting point is packaged with Tomcat itself -- the >>Application Developer's Guide. If you've installed a default Tomcat, it >>will be available at: >> >> http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/appdev/ >> >>or online at: >> >> http://jakarta.apache.org:8080/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/ >> >>For more background on servlet and JSP concepts and development, I >>recommend the Java Web Services Tutorial, which has many chapters on the >>web technologies that Tomcat implements: >> >> http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/index.html >> >>Craig >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> >>For additional commands, e-mail: >> > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: >For additional commands, e-mail: > > > >_______________________________________________ >Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com >The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
