Hi, I downloaded the latest JVM and tomcat. I set JAVA_HOME as system variable to the latest version of JVM like any developer. the tomcat home page appeared. wow ! and more wow ! great ! freeware which talk to the browser. I no longer have to do 1 week training on vendor tools. I am free at last free at last , free at last. Now I can learn this tool to a depth I have never learned before producing industrial software using the most complex programming features. So complex that another developer will have serious problems understanding. It will test his skills to the limit. I can now learn HTML and JAVASCRIPT , I thought ANSI SQL and pure object orientated programmer. No more wrappers.
Then I noticed there was a JVM already installed on my operating system in program files sub directory. I wanted to replicate the user environment. so I set JAVA_HOME in the .bat file pointing to latest JVM for tomcat only. That's when I got a blank page. It is my understanding that the communication protocol was incompatible between the latest JDK and the earlier JRE already installed used by browser. The two JVMS couldn't talk to each other. So disappointed I was. Then I found another set of instruction showing how to plug JSERV module with Apache web server. Once I did that the tomcat cat home page re appeared in the same browser. Now, I come from the third world and I know they use old computers and they do not have the bandwidth to download 500 - 600 MB operating system patches. Especially my tribe members. Like Apache I also come from a small tribe and I want to prototype an application so that we can keep track. I want to prototype using Struts2. Obviously I do not have access to the lowest level communication protocol. The one that makes it possible for a web page to travel half way across the world in a split second. That is confidential and I am a lowly developer. Can the expert please tell me, do I still have to use Apache in front or can I just use tomcat with the latest stable JVM and it will communicate with what ever browser no matter how old ?
