JSP and J2EE

[Nick Ueda]

I have J2SE installed on my computer and I want to start doing some JSP development so I downloaded the Blazix web-server and installed it on my computer and I was wondering if I need J2EE to have my JSP's run properly...
Thank you so much,
Nick Ueda

[Bear Bibeault]

Hi Nick, welcome to the Ranch.
Nope. The web server (I am unfamiliar with Blazix) should have an implementation of the javax.servlet API and that's all you will need to do just servlets and JSPs.
Look for a jar named servlet.jar or something else along those lines.
hth,
bear
[ June 17, 2003: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Dave Kinkead]

I downloaded the Blazix server 2 weeks ago to start learning JSP. The most frustrating thing I have found is that Blazix has different requirements for their classpaths than the J2EE spec. It took me a LONG time to workout where everything had to sit so hopefully this can help you.....
The only way I can have both servlets and normal java class files working together is with the following layout.
Edit your classpath in autoexec to include
classpath=.;C:\Blazix\classes\myProjectDir
keep JSPs in C:\Blazix\webfiles\myProjectDir
keep servlets and class files in C:\Blazix\classes\myProjectDir and not in myProjectDir\WEB-INF\
and finally, edit the web.ini file in C:\Blazix to change the default app dir from C:\Blazix\webfiles to C:\Blazix\webfiles\myProjectDir
This last thing is the trick to getting servlets to work with normal class files of the same package.
Hope this helps

[Bear Bibeault]

If Blazix is not spec-compliant, why use it?
curious,
bear

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I found Blasix to be harder to use than Tomcat (also free.) Tomcat is also more popular, which is good when you have questions.

[Raghunandhan Ramanujam]

There really are few reasons NOT to use Tomcat