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 Servlets & Servers

 Q: The first thing is that i don t know how to do to create Servlets ... no more

precisely, I don t know how to compile it !!

It says that it doesn t find the packages (javax I think) ... 

Plz, could someone tell me exactly what I should put on my environment variables

(Class_path, path, java_home etc...)

Answer: Well, I also started to learn about servlets. I recently downloaded JDK1.3.0

and Apache Tomcat 3.1.0 .

I set the following paths.

CLASSPATH = %TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps\examples\WEB INF\classes\work; 

   (my working directory)

TOMCAT_HOME = 

C:\JDK\tomcat

; 

   (or wherever you installed tomcat)

PATH=%TOMCAT_HOME%\bin ; 

   appended tomcat bin path to the path statement)

I also copied the servlet.jar found in the tomcat bin directory to both:

C:\jdk\jre\lib\ext\

C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\lib\ext\

I hope this helps....

Gregory Pedder

 Q: Any simple server I can download to run my java servlets...

Answer: 

Try Resin, 

www.caucho.com

Try tomcat from http://jakarta.apache.org   pure Java, 

servlets 2.2, good stuff! Tomcat is good. It s not fast, but it s very easy to setup and

good solution for development. Since most heay duty servers do implement SUN

specification, one can migrate application in no time.

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