Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Greetings:

I have MacOS X version 10.3.8 and this machine currently already has Apache 1.3 installed, I also understand that it is using Java 1.4.(2?) I believe.

I downloaded and untarred the .gz putting the Tomcat 5.5.7 directory under the Library directory (not /Users/loginname/Library, but the root Library) and setup some manual start up files to set the the variables ala one HOWTO I found at O'Reilly DEV network, this partained to version 4.0 of Tomcat and used Sun's Webservices Pack, which I thought might work. I notice that also you may need a compatibility tar to run Tomcat 5.5.7 with Java 1.4, but was wondering if I missed an update for Java 5.0? It doesn't appear to be available for download here at any rate :-)

When I load my startup file, I go to my browser (which is Firefox) and type localhost:8080, and get the page could not be displayed. So something is a-miss in my installation.

I would like to get to the point where Tomcat loads at startup.

Anybody using MacOS X (10.3.x) that has gotten Tomcat 5.5.7 to work please let me know. Would hate to regress to 4.0 on my personal dev machine!

Thanks for any help.