Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi, i've struggled a lot to get tomcat working as it should. Finally I came across a tutorial on the web for tomcat 6, that was of great help for me.

http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/

This tutorial contains a detailed description on how to install tomcat. At the end there are three tests for servlets. When they all work, tomcat is working fine. You can even download a preconfigured tomcat! (but I didn't try that)

For those who are working with Linux and who don't know much about setting environment variables, paths and classpath: have also a look at:

http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c140.html

Don't follow the install instructions here because it's about tomcat 5, and the installation is a bit different, but there's a detailed explanation about setting the environment variables. You won't find these in the first guide.

I see lots of questions on this forum, concerning installation and configuration of tomcat. I hope that new users will find these two guides as usefull as I found