Tip: Using Tomcat Without A Web Server & Setting Up A New WebApp Outside Of The Tomcat Hierarchy

["Russell, Steve" <St...@valueoptions.com>]

Well, I figure as long as I am on a roll I would also post this other tidbit
that I learned on my own and I am sure other people will want to do.

Anyway, lets just say you want to use Tomcat by itself without a web server.
You also want to set up Tomcat so that it will see *.jsp files and servlets
in the directory of your choice on windows.

I like to keep all of my work in C:\Projects.  It makes everything easy to
find and easy to navigate to on a command line.

I put this line in my server.xml ( Tomcat\conf ) file and rebooted Tomcat:

<Context path="/Projects" docBase="C:/Projects" debug="0"
reloadable="true"/>
        
After I did this Tomcat saw every *.jsp under C:\Projects or its
subdirectories.  Tomcat also saw servlets in C:\Projects\WEB-INF\classes

The URLs for "test.jsp" and "TestServlet" would be:
http://localhost:8080/Projects/servlet/TestServlet
http://localhost:8080/Projects/test.jsp

To make things easy on myself I set my classpath as:

.;C:\Classes

I found this to be very convent for Java.  Just put your Java classes,
beans, packages, jars( unjarred) into C:\Classes and *jsps, servlets, or any
other Java will easily find your java stuff without you having to do more
mucking around with your classpath.

With jdk 1.3.* you can also just drop jars as they are into C:\"jdk
home"\jre\lib\ext

Just be careful when you uninstall the jdk not to throw it out.

Steve

        

Steve Russell

Web Developer III
ValueOptions - Lifescape
703-205-6589
steve.russell@valueoptions.com



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