hi, i'd advice you to take a look at tomcat v4 which is the reference implementation of the servlet specs 2.3 & jsp specs 1.2. since you're doing servlet development in your case i wouldn't install apache because you don't want to run a "real-world" server, actually apache only improves serving static files (check the archives)... i prefer resin webserver from caucho.org, it's also worth trying.
if you don't need a "wysiwyg" editor for swing GUIs or whatever other overkill those (commercial) editors like jbuilder, visualcafe or j++ provide, but still want more comfort than ms' notepad provides, try jedit(.org). an open, java-based texteditor which also offers plug-ins for likely everything (e.g. JCompiler, ErrorList). hope this helps. -mw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham, Billy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:09 PM Subject: Basic software - and miles to go before I sleep > Hi all, > > I'm looking a bit of advice from all you 'oul hands out there. > I've only been programming (?tinkering) in java for the last year (or so) > and only with servlets in the last 3 months (on an evaluation/basic > development basis). I have been doing this with a fairly light-weight web > server that has a built-in servlet engine and very easy to set up (vqServer > from www.vqsoft.com). > > Having now decided to run with java servlets I would like to install a more > substantial web server (and anything else required) for running the finished > applications. Having been a member of this mailing list for the last few > months I can see people continually referring to Tomcat / Apache,etc. > > As I have no experience in this area, and not wanting to dive in and maybe > take the wrong decisions on what to use, I am asking for someone's advice on > what to use and where to find it. > Basically, assume I am starting from scratch with java servlets and want to > know the best route to get started as far as web server/servlet engine,etc. > is concerned. I will most likely be using mainly MS Windows platforms, > currently Win98. > > I'm quite happy, but no expert, with the java programming side of things > though advice on a good graphical java editor would also be appreciated (one > that points out your errors and allows you to correct them on-the-fly > without having to leave the editor). I tried Borland JBuilder (v4) and the > editor from the SUN site (whose name escapes me at the moment) but both seem > overly complex and take quite some time to start up - with the result that I > have been doing all my editing in Microsoft WordPad and compiling from a DOS > prompt. While this approach works OK it can be cumbersome to debug your > program and time-consuming. > > Many thanks for your time in regard to this matter, though I'm sure it will > be helpful to other beginners like myself to hear what the 'real' developers > prefer to use in everyday work. > > Best regards, Billy Graham. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
