Using Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat Version 3.1
You need a JSP container and a Servlet runtime to run your Web application. Several commercial servers containing the JSP container and runtime exist. These products are commonly referred to as application servers.
For this book, we use an open-source implementation from the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org). The Apache Software Foundation recently released an open-source reference implementation of Sun's Servlet 2.2 and Java Server Pages 1.1 specifications, called Tomcat, that is a part of the Jakarta project. The Foundation is best known for producing the open-source Apache Web Server, which accounts for more than half of the Web servers today on the Net.
The Jakarta project ...
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