MCS-270 Lab 5: Tomcat and JSP (Spring 2008)

Check-off lab, done on your own in lab on Friday, March 14

Introduction

The purpose of this lab is to install tomcat, learn how to run it locally on one of the lab computers, and work through the tomcat tutorial in order to begin to understand how tomcat works.

Resources

• JSP Tutorial
• Instructions for installing and running tomcat

Tasks

1. Go to Instructions for installing and running tomcat and set up tomcat to run locally on one of the lab computers. You should only go through the section Ending tomcat.
2. Check-off: Item 10 in Instructions for installing and running tomcat
3. Start working through the JSP Tutorial. Since these are fairly easy programming exercises, you can put the jsp files directly in the ~/webapps, rather than installing them from a work directory, as described in Instructions for installing and running tomcat
4. Check-off: Do the exercise at the bottom of tutorial item 3.
5. Check-off: Do the exercise at the bottom of tutorial item 4.
6. Check-off: Do the exercise at the bottom of tutorial item 5.
7. Optional: Do as much of the rest of the tutorial as time permits. I put the num example in the directory you copied over, so you might also try that.