Appendix A. Tomcat Installation and Configuration

Tomcat Installation and Configuration

Tomcat is the most popular reference implementation for servlets and JSP. At the time of this writing, the latest version of Tomcat at the time of this writing is 4.0.3, which implements the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 APIs. You need Tomcat or another reference implementation to run your servlets and JSP pages.

This appendix explains the installation and configuration of Tomcat in Windows NT/2000, UNIX, and Linux.

Tomcat Installation

Tomcat is written in Java. As such, it needs a Java compiler. Therefore, the first step in the installation is to download and install a JDK. Tomcat works with JDK 1.2 and ...

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