Getting the Tomcat Web Server
To develop chat.jsp on your machine, you can download the reference web server for servlets and JSP, the Apache Tomcat server, which you can get from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/ for free. To follow along, download the binary EXE file for your system and run it to install Tomcat.
After installing Tomcat, just follow the directions that come with it to start Tomcat. For example, if you're using Windows, the current version (Tomcat 5.5) installs itself as a Windows service. To start Tomcat, select the Start, Programs, Apache 5.5, Configure Tomcat item and then click the Start button to start Tomcat (or the Stop button to stop it).
To test whether Tomcat is working after you start it, start a browser and navigate ...
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