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Taming the Elusive Tomcat

Posted by timothy on from the neutering-the-cat dept.

joeyslopp writes: "Finding documentation on an open source project such as FreeBSD is usually quite easy. In fact, the project relies heavily upon user support. However, tracking down a good article that illustrates how to setup a .jsp (java server pages) environment using Tomcat has been difficult. Devshed came close with their article Slapping Together A JSP Development Environment , but lacked specifics on JDK for FreeBSD -- their article was more specific to Linux. The studs in #freebsd on undernet enlightened me a bit more, but still I lacked concrete documenation. Where can one find descriptive help in setting up Tomcat for FreeBSD? Dun dun dun dun *cheesy superhero theme* Enter Victoria Chan's article seemingly tailor-made for my Tomcat woes. The article, also located here, actually appears on www.freebsd.org as well...imagine that :) Hopefully other newbies to FreeBSD will read this and shorten their search time for a good article on the setup of Tomcat."

3 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. RTFM! by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    Christ, they're right here dammit. The docs are great, watchoo talkin' 'bout Willis...

    If that's not enough, go grab the servlet spec from Sun. It's really not that hard.

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    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
  2. Starting Point by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 3, Informative


    You could using one of the free (as in beer) community editions of the IDE's. CE editions of JBuilder and Forte come pre-configured with TOMCAT.

  3. Jakarta by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 3, Informative


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

    http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-
    do c/index.html
    http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tom cat-3.3-doc/in dex.html