| [66] | 1 | <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Application Developer's Guide - Introduction</title><meta value="Craig R. McClanahan" name="author"><meta value="craigmcc@apache.org" name="email"></head><body vlink="#525D76" alink="#525D76" link="#525D76" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td><!--PROJECT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt=" |
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| 3 | " align="right" src="../images/tomcat.gif"></a></td><td><font face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><h1>Apache Tomcat 6.0</h1></font></td><td><!--APACHE LOGO--><a href="http://www.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt="Apache Logo" align="right" src="../images/asf-logo.gif"></a></td></tr></table><table cellspacing="4" width="100%" border="0"><!--HEADER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><tr><!--LEFT SIDE NAVIGATION--><td nowrap="true" valign="top" width="20%"><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul><li><a href="../index.html">Docs Home</a></li></ul><p><strong>Contents</strong></p><ul><li><a href="index.html">Contents</a></li><li><a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="installation.html">Installation</a></li><li><a href="deployment.html">Deployment</a></li><li><a href="source.html">Source Code</a></li><li><a href="processes.html">Processes</a></li><li><a href="sample/">Example App</a></li></ul></td><!--RIGHT SIDE MAIN BODY--><td align="left" valign="top" width="80%"><table cellspacing="4" width="100%" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><h1>Application Developer's Guide</h1><h2>Introduction</h2></td><td nowrap="true" valign="top" align="right"><small><a href="printer/introduction.html"><img alt="Printer Friendly Version" border="0" src="../images/printer.gif"><br>print-friendly<br>version |
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| 4 | </a></small></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Overview"><strong>Overview</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 6 | <p>Congratulations! You've decided to (or been told to) learn how to |
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| 7 | build web applications using servlets and JSP pages, and picked the |
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| 8 | Tomcat server to use for your learning and development. But now what |
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| 9 | do you do?</p> |
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| 11 | <p>This manual is a primer covering the basic steps of using Tomcat to |
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| 12 | set up a development environment, organize your source code, and then |
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| 13 | build and test your application. It does not discuss architectures or |
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| 14 | recommended coding practices for web application development, |
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| 15 | or provide in depth instructions on operating the development |
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| 16 | tools that are discussed. References to sources of additional information |
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| 17 | are included in the following subsections.</p> |
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| 19 | <p>The discussion in this manual is aimed at developers who will be using |
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| 20 | a text editor along with command line tools to develop and debug their |
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| 21 | applications. As such, the recommendations are fairly generic -- but you |
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| 22 | should easily be able to apply them in either a Windows-based or Unix-based |
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| 23 | development environment. If you are utilizing an Interactive Development |
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| 24 | Environment (IDE) tool, you will need to adapt the advice given here to |
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| 25 | the details of your particular environment.</p> |
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| 27 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Links"><strong>Links</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | <p>The following links provide access to selected sources of online |
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| 30 | information, documentation, and software that is useful in developing |
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| 31 | web applications with Tomcat.</p> |
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| 32 | <ul> |
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| 33 | <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/download.html">http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/download.html</a> - |
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| 34 | <i>JavaServer Pages (JSP) Specfication, Version 2.0</i>. Describes |
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| 35 | the programming environment provided by standard implementations |
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| 36 | of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. In conjunction with |
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| 37 | the Servlet API Specification (see below), this document describes |
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| 38 | what a portable API page is allowed to contain. Specific |
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| 39 | information on scripting (Chapter 6), tag extensions (Chapter 7), |
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| 40 | and packaging JSP pages (Appendix A) is useful. The Javadoc |
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| 41 | API Documentation is included in the specification, and with the |
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| 42 | Tomcat download.<br><br></li> |
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| 43 | <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html">http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html</a> - |
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| 44 | <i>Servlet API Specification, Version 2.4</i>. Describes the |
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| 45 | programming environment that must be provided by all servlet |
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| 46 | containers conforming to this specification. In particular, you |
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| 47 | will need this document to understand the web application |
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| 48 | directory structure and deployment file (Chapter 9), methods of |
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| 49 | mapping request URIs to servlets (Chapter 11), container managed |
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| 50 | security (Chapter 12), and the syntax of the <code>web.xml</code> |
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| 51 | Web Application Deployment Descriptor (Chapter 13). The Javadoc |
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| 52 | API Documentation is included in the specification, and with the |
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| 53 | Tomcat download.<br><br></li> |
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| 54 | <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/blueprints/">http://java.sun.com/j2ee/blueprints/</a> - |
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| 55 | <i>Sun BluePrints (tm) Design Guidelines for J2EE</i>. Comprehensive |
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| 56 | advice and examples on application design for the Java2 Enterprise |
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| 57 | Edition (J2EE) platform, which includes servlets and JSP pages. The |
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| 58 | chapters on servlet and JSP design are useful even when your application |
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| 59 | does not require other J2EE platform components. |
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| 60 | <br><br></li> |
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| 61 | <li><b>TODO</b> -- Add more entries here!</li> |
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| 62 | </ul> |
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