Developping environment for JSP

[Gaelle]

Hello !

I need to work with JSP, which I don't know, for one of my projects.
For the moment, I would just like to test small programms like "Hello world ! ", or displayind the current date.
For the moment, I don't have anything as Java environment on my Windows NT computer.
What do I need to setup on it to manage to work with JSP ?
Do I need a server, a compilator ?...

Merci, Please don't mind my poor english,
Gaëlle.

 

[wushutwist]

Go to

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

and get Tomcat. Tomcat is the reference implementation of the Servlet and JSP specifications. It will be all you need to get up and running with simple JSP development though I don't recommend running Tomcat in production.

 

[Gaelle]

Thank you for your answer !
I went to the site and downloaded tomcat4.0.zip
But still I'm wondering : don't I need a jdk ?
Thanks !
Gaelle.

 

[wushutwist]

Tomcat 4.X requires JDK 1.3 or better. I am not sure if it has been tested under 1.4. You can get the standard JDK from Sun at

http://java.sun.com

 

[jolo70]

Im trying to compile a java servlet and uses the javax.servlet.* Then it says that I dont have that package. How do I get the packages from Sun installed into my machine?

What is the environment variable that I need to set up?

JOLO

 

[wushutwist]

What Web Container are you using? All Web Container ship with the necessary classes to compile your Servlets and JSP pages, you just need to know what jar the classes are in and include that on your CLASSPATH. You could check the documentation for your Web Container, it probably addresses this somewhere.