JSP Set Up Guide for Windows

Saturday, Oct. 30 2004 | Author: Nicole

Kevin Yank’s SitePoint article, JSP Quick-Start Guide for Windows, seems to be a pretty good guide to getting a system set up for starting JSP development.

According to Yank, the guide is somewhat aimed toward developers that focus on design, but like to dabble in scripting.

Setting up a server environment to develop and test JSPs can be a confusing task, especially since most of the documents written to guide users through the process are steeped in technical mumbo jumbo that assumes you already know JSP inside and out. If you’re just getting started with JSPs, you want a step-by-step guide to getting a server up and running in short order so that you can concentrate on learning the language, and worry about the details of server configuration later.

My only addition would be to note that setting up Apache+Tomcat is overkill in most cases. If someone just wants to dabble, installing only Tomcat, which can operate as a stand-alone container, is more than sufficient.

Also, extra bonus points for his recommended use of Apache 2.x. *gasp*

Category: Programming

2 Responses for "JSP Set Up Guide for Windows"

JC

October 30th, 2004 at 4:34 pm
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moderately on topic… my undying gratitude to anyone who can point me at a number formatting taglib that doesn’t blow up with a big ugly java error if it gets a null value handed to it instead of a numeric… the one from coldtags just isn’t cutting it and so far as I can tell, the jakarta project doesn’t have one….
Vinnie Garcia

October 31st, 2004 at 11:19 am
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About setting up only Tomcat:

True, that’s fine if you only play around with JSP, and if in production you have everything all set up for you. However, if you want to play with the power of both Apache and Tomcat (perhaps with using mod_rewrite in JSP apps), then having them both linked up together is going to be a big help. I do JSP coding for a living and that article still helped me out though. Nice writeup/review.