> I am wanting to see how Struts may help in my J2EE development. I > have purchased the O'Reilly book "Jakarta Struts" and want to get > started with some examples. > > 1) I am currently running Tomcat 4.1.31 as a standalone. > Can struts be installed with Tomcat as standalone? I saw > somewhere in the install where it says to make sure you have > Apache and Tomcat installed? Can someone help clear this up?
Struts works fine under tomcat standalone. Note that if you upgrade to tomcat 5 you get to use EL anywhere in your jsp (not just in tags) so you can ditch bean:write, c:out tags. > 2) Is there a hello Struts example somewhere? Just to test the > install/setup before I get under way? There are loads of examples out there. Some come with struts: take a look in the webapps folder of the struts package. Or take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/struts/. There are some samples and some extsions to struts. > 3) The book does not start off simple either, so how can one get > a handle on this effectively? My background is Servlets/JSP/ Web > development. Including taglibs, ant, etc. > If you're up on java/servlets/jsp then just jump into the examples. Have a play with them and you'll quickly get a feel for how it all works. Daniel. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
