running servlets ?

[Satya Atluri]

Hi,

I have just started learning servlets. I have J2EE installed on my
machine. Will it be enough to run Servlets or do I need to install
Servlet development kit and stuff like that..

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Satya

[H. Wilson]

Satya Atluri <vatluri@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have just started learning servlets. I have J2EE installed on my
>machine. Will it be enough to run Servlets or do I need to install
>Servlet development kit and stuff like that..
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Satya
>

I've also just started learning servlets. I also installed J2EE along with
JDK 1.2.2.

Here is what I've learned by using the included stuff from Sun:

TO RUN(compile) A JSP PAGE, you have to have run a batch file located in:
C:\j2sdkee1.2\bin\j2ee.bat

You'll see the following message appear in the command prompt, "J2EE server
startup complete."

When you create new JSPs, simply put them in the C:\j2sdkee1.2\public_html\
directory, then open up any web browser and type: http://localhost:8000/<jsp
filename>, it'll take a few seconds to compile the JSP page into a Servlet,
then voila, you get your results.

TO RUN A SERVLET, you have to run a different batch file that comes with
the JSDK (don't confuse this with the J2SDK - two completely different installs)
which is located at C:\jsdk2.1\startserver.bat

You should then see the following message appear in another command prompt:
"JSDK WebServer Version
Loaded configuration fr
endpoint created: :8080"

Any servlets (class files) that you compile and create, you want to place
them in the following directory - C:\jsdk2.1\webpages\Web-inf\servlets\ directory.
After doing that, you can then open your browser and type the following
URL in: http://localhost:8080/servlet/<servlet name - AKA class file name>

I hope this is helpful to somebody. Is it just me, or does it seem like
quite a bit of hoops to jump through to test "simple" stuff? It was a trial
and error process to learn how to do the above stuff.

Herbie Wilson