Slapping Together A JSP Development Environment - Essential Software (
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The first and most basic thing you need to decide is
whether you're going to be doing JSP development on Windows or Linux (this
tutorial covers both). Myself, I have it working on both my Windows 95 system
and my Linux box. If you have the machines to spare, or simply have lots of time
on your hands (loser!), you can do the same; if not, pick one and then get
yourself copies of all the programs listed below.
Java Development Kit:
The J in JSP stands for Java, and you can't do anything without a copy of the
latest Java Development Kit from Sun Microsystems. As of this writing, the
latest kit is available from
http://java.sun.com/ for both Windows and Linux
platforms. This tutorial uses the Java2 SDK 1.3.
Tomcat: Sun's
recommended server for JSP development, Tomcat takes care of parsing JSP pages
and also provides a servlet engine for Java servlets. You can download a copy of
Tomcat from The Jakarta Project's Web site at
http://jakarta.apache.org/ . This tutorial
uses Tomcat 3.2.
Apache: The world's favourite Web server, Apache handles
all requests for static HTML content and non-JSP pages. Get yourself a copy for
your platform from
http://www.apache.org/ .
This tutorial uses Apache 1.3.14.
JServ: JServ is an Apache loadable
module that serves as the all-important connection between the Tomcat and Apache
servers. You can download a copy from
http://java.apache.org/jserv/ . This
tutorial uses JServ 1.1.1.
Once you've got all that down, it's time to
get down to business. We'll do a Windows installation first.
