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  1. Sun JDK 6.0+ (J2SE 1.6)
  2. Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, which is platform specific
  3. Apache Geronimo Eclipse Plugin 2.1.x
  4. Apache Geronimo Server 2.1.x
Note

Geronimo version 2.1.x, Java 1.5 runtime, and Eclipse Ganymede are used is used in this tutorial but other versions can be used instead (e.g., Geronimo version 2.2, Java 1.6, Eclipse Europa)

Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial is organized in the following sections:

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Creating a dynamic Web project using Eclipse

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  1. Right-click on the project HelloWorld and create a new JSP as shown in the figure.




  2. Give the name as hello.jsp and select Next. Select Finish on the next screen




  3. Modify the code of hello.jsp as follows:
    Code Block
    titlehello.jsp
    borderStylesolid
    <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
        pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <title>Hello World</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    Hello World!!
    </body>
    </html>
    

Making hellp.jsp the welcome file

  1. Click WebContent -> WEB-INF and open web.xml.
  2. Add hello.jsp as a welcome file under the <welcome-file-list> tag:
    Code Block
    titleweb.xml
    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
             xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
       <display-name>HellowWorld</display-name>
       <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>hello.jsp</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
    </web-app>
    

Run and deploy

  1. Deploy the application on the server.




  2. launch the application using http://localhost:8080/HelloWorld/hello.jsp




  3. This will display HelloWorld!! on the browser window.