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Before
setting up the JSP environment, you must make sure you have the JDK. Download
JDK 1.3 from the following URL: For
Windows, the complete download is about 30 MB. Run
through the setup. One
of the main problems new Java developers have is setting the PATH and CLASSPATH. For
Windows 95/98/ME you edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the new PATH and CLASSPATH settings
and reboot your machine. For
Windows NT/2000 you edit the environment settings. Both
of these changes are described in the Java installation instructions. You
can download JSP environments from the web. http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/download.html The
preferred option is to download the J2EE Reference Implementation, Tomcat
(approximately 3MB). Tomcat is a free open source JSP and Servlet engine,
developed by Apache. Instructions to download Tomcat are given below. To
download Tomcat (current version 3.2.1), go to the following URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.2.1/bin/ Download
your chosen compressed file, for example on Windows you would download the zip
file – 3.0 MB: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.2.1/bin/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.zip Unzip
the file into a directory and set an environment variable TOMCAT_HOME to your
main Tomcat directory: For
example, set
TOMCAT_HOME=c:\tomcat To
start the server change to the tomcat\bin directory and type: startup Open
a web browser and in the address box type: http://localhost:8080/
- this displays the example page. Place
any new JSP files in the “webapps” directory under your installed Tomcat
directory. For
example, to run “myfirst.jsp” file, copy the file into the
“webapps/ROOT” directory and then open a browser to the address: http://localhost:8080/myfirst.jsp
This
will show you the executed JSP file. CONGRATULATIONS
- YOUR JSP and SERVLET ENVIRONMENT IS NOW SETUP! |
