Copyright ©May 2008 |
Tutorial: Using NetBeans with JDK 6 and Apache Tomcat
Click here to see my tutorial or notes on JavaServer Faces (JSF) |
Introduction
As promised, I installed NetBeans this morning to try it out. I spent a couple of hours doing nothing useful like looking for the all-important vi/vim mode additions to the editor (an important religious duty I could not in good conscience neglect) and tailoring the editor for the way I like to indent, space, put down braces, etc. (Yet another religious duty, I know.) I generally got the feel for the environment. There are things that aren't as good as Eclipse when it comes to performing the tailoring, but the jVi plug-in is way more stable than Eclipse's plug-in (for which I paid $20 a few years ago; jVi is free).
In short, I screwed around a lot.
However, when it came to the important experiment, that of implementing in NetBeans my existing, very lengthy Eclipse Web Tools Platform tutorial written laboriously for Eclipse beginners (http://www.windofkeltia.com/j2ee/wtp-tutorial.html), I spent maybe 10 minutes copying and pasting my source code from the Eclipse development workspace and, once I figured out how to launch things (another 2 minutes of playing around with the deployment file, web.xml), it worked right off.
So, in the following two paragraphs, I'm going to re-write my very long (over 2,000 lines) web apps tutorial for you...
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Welcome to my tutorial on how to write a servlet using NetBeans, JDK 6 and Tomcat 6. Pay very close attention to the following page. Do what it says and you can't miss. It's a tiny percentage in length of my Eclipse tutorial counterpart. |
Russell Bateman