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Evik James
Evik James

Reputation: 10483

JSP - What's the first step to serve JSP pages on my PC?

I want to start developing JSP pages. I need to set up a localhost on my PC at home.

What do I need to do to serve JSP pages locally?

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I am a ColdFusion developer and am running CF Builder as well as ColdFusion 9.

Here's the code I am trying to run saved as HelloWorld.jsp

<%
  java.util.Date dateToday = new java.util.Date();
%>

<html>
<body>
<p>Todays date is <%= dateToday %> </p>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 926

Answers (1)

Maverik
Maverik

Reputation: 2398

first of all you need an Application server that interprets your JSP pages. I would suggest you to use Apache Tomcat. It is in charge of receiving the requests from the client and return a result that is an HTML page. In other worlds apache transforms your JSP page (which is a mix of Java and HTML) in a pure HTML page. So the client doesn't need a virtual machine on it's side.

I would suggest you to use the eclipse web developments tools. They offer a good suite for programming and testing your page in eclipse.

Here you can find the instructions for installing tomcat. And Here some hints for configuring tomcat in eclipse.

If you already know Java it would be easy for you starting with JSP!

Upvotes: 2

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