maclord — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:23:09 +0000

Tomcat is available both as a standalone "web container" where you can host J2EE servlets and JSP also as an add-on to Apache httpd server.

I never tried it as an add-on to Apache so far, but the easiest way to do it is to get and install XAMMP which includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, an FTP server and many optimization add-ons.

Tomcat has versions for almost all major operating systems which include Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris.

The standalone version itself is a Java application which runs on any operating system that has a Java Virtual Machine. It is available as a separate download from Apache.org.

I have once copied the entire Tomcat folder installed on Sun Solaris 8 to Windows. Only by modifying the environment variable of java, pointing it to the JVM folder on Windows, and modifying startup & shutdown scripts (in .bat format), it just worked on Windows - without installation nor recompiling!

Note: In my humble opinion Tomcat standalone can also be used alone for hosting .html pages besides .jsp although I think this is not a very common practice.

Tomcat hosting, as far as I researched is more expensive than PHP hosting. So I do not yet use it for Internet publication, but we heavily rely on it on company Intranet.

-M

www.ozarweb.com

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:20:39 +0000

DO you have Netbeans installed? Netbeans comes bundled with a Tomcat server.

Solommon — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:31:08 +0000

Hello. I'm not sure if it will be able to work with windows.