Resources

Learn

• Tomcat Web site: Tomcat documentation, how-tos, and mailing lists.
  
  
• Java Community Process: You can find the Java Specification Requests for JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, and the JSP Standard Tag Library here.
  
  
• "Introduction to JavaServer Pages technology" (Noel J. Bergman, developerWorks, August 2001): Learn JSP programming with this tutorial.
  
  
• "Introduction to Java Servlet technology" (Roy Miller, developerWorks, December 2004): This tutorial uses Eclipse's Tomcat plug-in to make servlet development on Tomcat even easier.
  
  
• New to SOA and Web services: Get a handle on the basics of Web services technology.
  
  
• SOA and Web services zone: Find articles and tutorials about every aspect of Web services programming.
  
  
• Java technology zone: Find more resources for Java developers.
  
  

Get products and technologies

• Tomcat downloads page: Find the latest Tomcat download.
  
  
• Apache Axis: Download the Axis Web services engine.
  
  
• Apache Ant: You need to install Ant, a versatile build tool for Java projects, to build the Web service client in this tutorial.
  
  

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• Before you start
• What is Tomcat?
• Tomcat installation and setup
• Your first JSP application on Tomcat
• Breaking into servlets development with Tomcat
• Discovering Web services development with Tomcat
• Summary
• Download
• Resources
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