Thanks Randall :) Actually I have got the connectors now, all to do is now compile them :( hahaha... you may be able to hear me scream from all the way over your at place.
I also downloaded the taglibs, interesting things they are! I tried a servlet with the web.xml for the root directory, in WEB-INF, at it worked!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 2:47 AM Subject: Re: Simple WAR files > James, > > At 08:49 2002-08-30, you wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: > > > I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most > > > of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. > > > >no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of > >stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really > >want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do > >simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know > >what the ide is doing under the covers. > > > I agree with Peter. Learn the ins and outs of Web App configuration first > and later you can rely on automation to relieve you of the burden. > > Besides, you might be surprised with the simplicity of a web.xml file, > especially if you have only JSP pages. Here's the web.xml file I'm > currently using (for a project that's still quite young). It includes a > custom tag library: > > -==--==- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > > <!DOCTYPE web-app > PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" > "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";> > > <web-app> > > <taglib> > <taglib-uri>/tau-web-elements</taglib-uri> > <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/TWE.tld</taglib-location> > </taglib> > > </web-app> > -==--===- > > No big deal, eh? If I didn't have the custom tags, it could have been > omitted entirely. > > Of course, once a proper controller enters the picture, I'll need at least > one servlet declaration and probably some filters. The point is to start > small and simple and then work your way up to more ambitious > configurations. That way you'll know what's what and won't be in the dark > when you need some variation that's not easily obtained from your IDE > (assuming you use one). > > > > > > Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more > > > sense. > > > >once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make > >sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. > > > >- -- > >Peter Abplanalp > > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
