Brian, This can definately get confusing if you are just thrown into the mix.
Tomcat 5 is definately the right way to go, its faster, more stable and supports newer specs. Struts, IIRC, is designed to only need the Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.0 or 1.1 spec, it was meant to be super-compatible, soyou should be safe. There is information on the Struts page (under future direction) where it explains that the next Struts 2.0 release might change to require Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 I believe it was. As far as JSTL, just get the newest version possible. JSTL it a set of taglibs, and JSP has supported taglibs for a while. But if you want to get fancy with the Expression Language support in JSTL, then you will need a container that supports Servlet 2.4 spec (which Tomcat 5 does just fine). I believe I've left out gaping holes of information, and may even be wrong, but AFAIK this is the gist of the version information you need. Generally going with the newest stuff you can find is pretty safe, especially with Jakarta projects (stuff comming out of apache group). They have one of the strictest (I love it) release cycles I've ever seen when it comes to shipping stable stuff. I hope that helped atleast a little, Riyad On Wednesday 26 May 2004 01:31 pm, Barnett, Brian W. wrote: > I'm a recent convert to java (from micro$oft... shhhhh) and i'm still > trying to understand which versions of which products work together. I just > got Tomcat 5.x, which implements Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. Does it matter > if I use Struts 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 with this? Why? > > > > How does the version of the JRE affect things? How do I know which version > of the JSTL I need? > > > > Is there some good reading on these topics somewhere? (A document that can > explain how all these products work together and how the version of one > affects the version of another?) > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Barnett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
