[milf]

I wondering what most people use to develop JSP pages on OS X. I've come across the iTools suite, but since I'm going to be using this just to learn the technology, I can't justify forking over a couple hundred dollars.

What do I need to server JSP pages locally on my TiBook? I've heard something about Tomcat, but is that a Windows only application? I'm sure there are solutions to setting up JSP, but I'd prefer one that is free and has all the functionality a live production server would have on it.

Thanks for the help.

[bens1901]

Originally posted by milf:
I wondering what most people use to develop JSP pages on OS X. I've come across the iTools suite, but since I'm going to be using this just to learn the technology, I can't justify forking over a couple hundred dollars.

What do I need to server JSP pages locally on my TiBook? I've heard something about Tomcat, but is that a Windows only application? I'm sure there are solutions to setting up JSP, but I'd prefer one that is free and has all the functionality a live production server would have on it.

Thanks for the help.

Tomcat is free. You can find out more at: http://jakarta.apache.org/

You can use any text editor for creating the code. In the BSD Unix environment, "vi" is a popular editor. In the Mac environment, BBEdit is a popular one.

check out: http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/tomcat1.html

[megus]

Aaron Faby at Server Logistics has some nice packages for OS X. One of them being Tomcat 4.1.18.

You can get the at www.aaronfaby.com

//megus

[Arkham_c]

Tomcat is the way to go. If you are UNIX saavy, you can get it here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/

Get the latest release of version 4.


If you're NOT UNIX saavy, there is a really nice, free Mac GUI version called Schroedinger, available here:

http://www.micromata.de/en/M_tec/schroedinger/

It is pretty cool and will let you get started writing jsp pages very quickly.

[milf]

Thanks for the response. I have Tomcat up and running on my TiBook, so I am now able to server JSP pages. I wrote a couple of simple servlets that work fine, but I am having trouble getting them to be found. If I compile and run my servlet from Tomcat's examples directory /examples/servlet/*, the servlet runs fine. I wanted, however, to put the servlet in /calendar/*, but for some reason it is never found there. I think this has something to do with the web.xml file that is found in the WEB-INF folder, but I'm a newbie and don't quite know how to configure this yet. I guess I have some reading to catch up on. Any insight?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by milf:
I think this has something to do with the web.xml file that is found in the WEB-INF folder, but I'm a newbie and don't quite know how to configure this yet. I guess I have some reading to catch up on. Any insight?

This article tells you how to do what you want:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2...19/tomcat.html

This one does too:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/tomcat1.html