Chapter 3 Building Web Applications
Use Tomcat to set up a development environment, organize source code, build, and test your application. To use Tomcat 6 for web development applications, install Tomcat 6 and the required software.
- JDK – Tomcat 6.0 runs on J2SE 5.0. To find compatible JDKs for many platforms, refer to this page.
- Tomcat – Download the latest version of Tomcat here.
- Ant – Download Ant 1.4 or later versions here. Add the bin directory of the Ant distribution to the PATH environment variable.
- CVS – Download and install Concurrent Version System (CVS). The CVS is a helpful too in maintaining versions of the source files included in the web application.