About

An educational, experimental implementation of a Java servlet using the Apache Tomcat implementation, with Ant as the build system.

The content contains paraphrasing of the links issued below, since those have been taken for reference.

By Quoc An Ha.

Usage

Make sure both Tomcat and Ant are installed. Include the jar under ${CATALINA_HOME}/lib/servlet-api.jar into the classpath (this file is normally part of Java EE).

Then simply run (ant all,) ant dist, ant install.

Ant command

To clean

ant clean

To build

ant compile

To clean & build

ant all

To deploy

ant install

To undeploy

ant undeploy

To reload

ant reload

Refer to the build.xml file for more information.

Links

• https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/index.html
• https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/JavaServlets.html

Problems

None left!

Todo

• Read up on JavaServer Page (JSP).
• Read up on ServletContext.
• Read up on ServletConfig.
• Implement a Front Controller Pattern Servlet.
  • http://www.baeldung.com/java-front-controller-pattern