Richard, I'm certainly no expert but I've been playing with this stuff a while and I find the free netbeans IDE to be an excellent environment for learning this stuff. It come with a copy of tomcat built into it so you can debug your servlet from within the IDE. With the click of a buton it will generate a skeleton servlet that does nothing except print hello world and then you can set breakpoints in the code and debug it and watch it execute one line at a time. I don't know how people survive without such a tool. Eclipse is another IDE people think highly of but I'm not familiar with it. Check out netbeans at
www.netbeans.org I'd stick with version 3.6 for now good luck Dave > After a few years of trying on and off I've finally managed to make a > servlet work in Tomcat (4.1). > > I had to add: > <servlet> > <servlet-name>StudioSearch</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>StudioSearch</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > to webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml. (No one had ever said before about the > servlet-mapping directive.). I'll install it in a better location when > its working, I'm just using the root webapp for debugging. > > So now I need to try and make my servlet work. Obviously there are lots > of bugs in the Java code itself but I wonder if anyone could suggest a > good way of testing servlet code? ATM, I have to compile the servlet, > copy it to the classes directory, restart Tomcat (which takes several > minutes) and read the Tomcat logs to find out whats gone wrong! > Nightmare! <:-o > > How do people who know what they're doing go about debugging servlets? > > Thanks in advance, > Richard > -- > Richard Lewis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
