Spring MVC Beginner’s Guide

Installing a web server

So far, we have seen how to install JDK and Maven. Using these tools, we can compile the Java source code into the .class files and package these .class files into the .jar or .war archives. However, how do we run our packaged archives? For this, we take the help of a web server, which will host our packaged archives as a running application.

Time for action - installing the Tomcat web server

Apache Tomcat is a popular Java web server and servlet container. We are going to use Apache Tomcat Version 8.0, which is the latest, but you can even use version 7.0. Let's take a look at how we can install the Tomcat web server:

1. Go to the Apache Tomcat home page at http://tomcat.apache.org/.
2. Click on the Tomcat 8.0 download link; it ...