Re: Tomcat / JasperReports configuration

Craig Taylor wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm new to the Java / Tomcat / Eclipse environment from the PHP / C /
> Unix world. As such I'm running into some confusion over the wealth of
> material available out there in java land on google.
>
> Are there any definitive references that explain the Tomcat
> functionality and how / what applets are. I used Java briefly back in
> the 1.2 days and my understanding of some of the terminology in this
> is probably what's leading to my confusion.
>
> The end intent of this is to try to utilize JaspReports as a web
> service to a pre-existing PHP application. Any pointers on that would
> also be appreciated.
>   
The best way to get started would probably be to download and install 
Tomcat, and
then pick up one of the good "Intro to Servlets and JSPs" type book and 
spend some
time doing the "hello world" of servlets and JSPs.  Get a feel for the 
basic of how
it all works together, and ask specific questions here. 

This book is a pretty good one:

<http://www.amazon.com/Java-Servlet-Programming-Jason-Hunter/dp/0596000405/sr=1-2/qid=1170790182/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-5627296-5318468?ie=UTF8&s=books>

You might also find some value in looking at this Servlet tutorial from Sun:

<http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/articles/tutorial/>

or even the full J2EE tutorial.  But the J2EE tutorial is going to
go into a lot of stuff you probably don't care about right now.

<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/>


Applets probably aren't relevant to what you're trying to do.  Applets run
locally in a VM embedded in the client browser and aren't particularly 
popular
these days.  With JasperReports you'll probably just want to serve up
some HTML, and possibly PDF / XLS / CSV / etc. formatted copies
of reports.  You won't need applets for that.


HTH,

Phil

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