Deploying JSP Applications

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In the feature I will be answering three main issues

• Where do you put things in the web app's (Static content, JSP files, Servlet class files, etc)
• Where will the Container look for things in the web app (TLD files, Deployment Descriptors, etc)
• How does the Client request things in the web app (HTML, JSP, Servlet, etc)

Most deployments tools (Sun Java studio, Eclipse, Ant, etc) will know where to place files (after you have configured it) but if you are system/application administrator you need to have an idea of the files and directory layout, most application servers follow the same pattern but they do have slight differences.
With Tomcat you will have a top level directory called something like c:\tomcat6 (remember when you install Tomcat try to have no spaces in the directory name), underneath this directory you will have a directory called webapps, this is where you will deploy your application. more...