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Chapter 1 Overview of Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Compile and Install Your Servlets

Once you've properly set your 

CLASSPATH

, as described earlier in this sec 

tion, just use  

javac ServletName.java

  to compile a servlet. The result 

ant class file needs to go in a location that the server knows to check during

execution. As you might expect, this location varies from server to server. Fol 

lowing is a quick summary of the locations used by the latest releases of Tom 

cat, the JSWDK, and the Java Web Server. In all three cases, assume

install_dir

 is the server's main installation directory.

Tomcat

install_dir/webpages/WEB INF/classes

Standard location for servlet classes.

utorial/

install_dir/classes

vailble at 

Alternate location for servlet classes.

cat T

install_dir/lib

om

Location for JAR files containing classes.

omcat are a /Apache T

Tomcat 3.1

or T m

Just before this book went to press, Apache released a beta version of

ons f

Tomcat 3.1. If there is a final version of this version available when you go to

recti

download Tomcat, you should use it. Here is the new directory organization

that Tomcat 3.1 uses:

.coreservlets.cow

install_dir/webapps/ROOT/WEB INF/classes

Standard location for servlet classes.

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install_dir/classes

NO http://ww

Alternate location for servlet classes.

install_dir/lib

Location for JAR files containing classes.

The JSWDK

install_dir/webpages/WEB INF/servlets

Standard location for servlet classes.

install_dir/classes

Alternate location for servlet classes.

install_dir/lib

Location for JAR files containing classes.

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