This manual includes contributions from many members of the Tomcat Project developer community. The following authors have provided significant content:
- Craig R. McClanahan ([email protected])
Table of Contents
Preface
Table of Contents
The information presented is divided into the following sections:
- Introduction – Briefly describes the information covered here, with links and references to other sources of information.
- Installation – Covers acquiring and installing the required software components to use Tomcat for web application development.
- Deployment Organization – Discusses the standard directory layout for a web application (defined in the Servlet API Specification), the Web Application Deployment Descriptor, and options for integration with Tomcat in your development environment.
- Source Organization –
Describes a useful approach to organizing the source code
directories for your project, and introduces the
build.xmlused by Ant to manage compilation. - Development Processes – Provides brief descriptions of typical development processes utilizing the recommended deployment and source organizations.
- Example Application – This directory contains a very simple, but functionally complete, “Hello, World” application built according to the principles described in this manual. You can use this application to practice using the described techniques.