Web Development with Eclipse Europa Part 1 - Java tutorial

Category: Java tutorials > Application - Difficulty:

A brief note about some possible causes of runtime problems which may prevent Java applets from working correctly.

Article on step by step installation of Tomcat 4.0 Server. Then moves on to introduce JSP and eventually builds a simple JSP page to test the installation.

This article examines Java Servlets in detail and discusses HttpServlet, ServletConfig and ServletContext classes and issues like Servlet preloading and initialization parameters.

This tutorial helps you to understand:

HTTP Response Syntax
HTTP Response Header Lines
Controlling Response Header Lines
Viewing Response Header Lines
Response Header Lines of Static Files
Response Header Lines Affected by jsp:directive.page Elements
Setting Header Lines Directly in JSP Pages
Generating Non-HTML Entity Body

A resource is a file situated somewhere in the class path. It can be a file in a package folder, in the classes folder or in a jar file. Resources are usually needed at runtime and they can be properties files, images and so on. The ClassLoader and Class classes provide methods to find the desired resources but a little bit of attention has to be payed to the quirks of this API.