11.1. Installing Tomcat
Problem
You need access to a JSP and servlet web container.
Solution
Download and install the Tomcat web server, which is the reference installation for JSP and servlets. You can get Tomcat at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/ for free. Installation is easy; just download the compressed file for your operating system and uncompress it. Tomcat is a Java application, so no special installation is needed.
Discussion
If you don’t have access to a JSP/servlet web server, download Tomcat from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/; just select the compressed file for your operating system. One of the good things about Tomcat is that all you have to do to install it is to unzip/untar it. Tomcat is a Java application, so it’ll run using your Java installation (see Recipe Recipe 11.2 for more information).
We’ll use the most recent version of Tomcat as of this writing, Version 5.0.19. Installing it is as easy as downloading it and unzipping or untarring it. Here’s the directory structure you get when you do this:
jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 |_ _bin Binary files |_ _common Classes used by code and web applications | |_ _classes Common Java classes | |_ _endorsed Endorsed Java classes | |_ _lib Common Java classes in .jar format |_ _conf Configuration files |_ _logs The server's log files |_ _server Internal Tomcat classes |_ _shared Shared files |_ _temp Temporary files |_ _webapps Directory to use for web applications |_ _work Scratch directory for holding temporary files
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