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Installation for Apache Jakarta Tomcat.
  1. Installation
  2. Environment Variable Updates
  3. Script File Updates
  4. Test Installation

Installation

Install JDK & J2EE
Unzip Jakarta, Ant & JDK Docs (J2EE docs are included in the above J2EE install.)

Environment Variable Updates

JAVA_HOME=D:\Java\JDK\1.4
J2EE_HOME=D:\Java\J2EE\1.3
ANT_HOME=D:\Java\Jakarta\Ant
CLASSPATH=.;D:\Source\Java;%J2EE_HOME%\lib\j2ee.jar
PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%J2EE_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin
Restart Windows

Script File Updates

CD %J2EE_HOME%\bin   CD D:\Java\Jakarta\bin
  Create shortcuts

Source

Name

Arguments

J2EE.bat Start J2EE -verbose
J2EE.bat Stop J2EE -stop
DeployTool.bat Deploy Tool  
Append "PAUSE" to J2EE.bat & DeployTool.bat files.
Drag shortcuts to desktop (or [Start] menu).
    Create shortcuts

Source

Name

Arguments

Startup.bat Start Tomcat  
Shutdown.bat Stop Tomcat  
Append "PAUSE" to Catalina.bat file.
Drag shortcuts to desktop (or [Start] menu).

Test Installation

Click on the start icons and test the HTTP server with your browser.
Sun's reference implementation uses http://localhost:8000/
Tomcat uses http://localhost:8080/
You should see a live web page for each server.
(Trouble shooting should start with the environment variables.)