do i need ant to develop jsp pages with tomcat?

[ba...@bechtle.de]

hi,

i am new to tomcat. i want to develop jsp pages that should interact with
databases like mysql e.g. what is ant needed for? do i need it for simple
jsp development. i just downloaded the tomcat binary and installed it. is
that all i have to do?

thx for help

cu

bastian

Re: do i need ant to develop jsp pages with tomcat?

[Jim Cheesman <jc...@msl.es>]

At 10:31 AM 19/07/01, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>i am new to tomcat. i want to develop jsp pages that should interact with
>databases like mysql e.g. what is ant needed for? do i need it for simple
>jsp development. i just downloaded the tomcat binary and installed it. is
>that all i have to do?


You don't need ant for developing jsp pages - in fact, if all you're doing 
is jsp it's almost useless. BUT... you won't be only doing jsp, as you'll 
need beans and other classes (servlets, for example) to do the database 
access stuff, perhaps a few tags to help with the html, and so on. What ant 
can do is help build (compile, test, jar, distribute) these files, in a 
fairly simple way. (You'll probably have noted that tomcat as well as all 
the other jakarta projects are built using ant...)

If you're going to be doing any (semi)serious development, e.g. more than 
one package, more than 10 or so classes, I'd recommend investing the time 
in learning ant.





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