Introduction document needed.

[st...@iname.com]

Hi,

After some struggle, I got Tomcat 3.1Beta setup on my RH6.1

I was all anxious to see some default servlet/jsp page displayed the same way you see apache server initial setup page.

But all my examples, test etc. directory are empty. I can only get default display when I do "http://my.host.ip.address:8080/examples" or "http://my.host.ip.address:8080/test"

My /examples directory only contains META-INF which is empty, I only see "WEB-INF" in documents. Are they the same?

I also want to get some "hello world" kind of tutorial to set up my first servlet/jsp program on the server.

I search high and low across the sites and /doc directory of tomcat with no result.

It seems I have to read all the documents to become an expert in servlet before I can write my own "hello world" program. But isn't it the norm to show people how to "hello world" for any new software these days?

I would really appreciate if somebody can share with me what I should do to get that "hello world" servlet set up or point me to some useful introduction document.

Thanks in advance.

Steve.


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Re: Introduction document needed.

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

stevekang@iname.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After some struggle, I got Tomcat 3.1Beta setup on my RH6.1
>
> I was all anxious to see some default servlet/jsp page displayed the same way you see apache server initial setup page.
>
> But all my examples, test etc. directory are empty. I can only get default display when I do "http://my.host.ip.address:8080/examples" or "http://my.host.ip.address:8080/test"
>
> My /examples directory only contains META-INF which is empty, I only see "WEB-INF" in documents. Are they the same?
>
> I also want to get some "hello world" kind of tutorial to set up my first servlet/jsp program on the server.
>
> I search high and low across the sites and /doc directory of tomcat with no result.
>
> It seems I have to read all the documents to become an expert in servlet before I can write my own "hello world" program. But isn't it the norm to show people how to "hello world" for any new software these days?
>
> I would really appreciate if somebody can share with me what I should do to get that "hello world" servlet set up or point me to some useful introduction document.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve.
>

Try downloading the most recent nightly build of Tomcat from:

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

and look at the Application Developer's Guide in directory "tomcat/doc/appdev".  It discusses at length how to set up your own web application, and includes a sample app as a starting point.  This document will be
included in the final 3.1 release as well.

Craig McClanahan