Pure Java Server Pages™

Creating the PUREJSP Web Application

With the Java Servlet specification 2.2, the concept of a Web Application was introduced. According to this specification a "Web Application is a collection of servlets, html pages, classes, and other resources that can be bundled and run on multiple containers from multiple vendors." In this text you are going to create the Web Application directory structure, and create a new application entry in the server.xml file. Because you will be developing your examples as you progress through the book, we will not deploy our examples into a Web Archive File. If you would like further information about installing Web Applications, which is beyond the scope of this book, refer to the Java Servlet Specification 2.2 ...