About this Guide

This document is the result of a student project at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The goal of the project was to get familiar with the Java Servlets technology and to build 1 or 2 web applications.

During the project we learned a lot about Java Servlets and we created an application that makes use of a database, sends email automatically and makes use of templates for the web pages.

This document describes the way we set up our web server under Linux and how we got our application up and running.

This document is intended to give the reader the opportunity so set up a web server that enables Java Servlet developing. Note that this manual is not the way it probably should work for a production environment, but it's the way we made it work for us! Suggestions are welcome!

This document gives you the ability to:

• Set up a Java Servlet server (Tomcat)
• Create and use Java Servlets
• Use HTML templates (with the Velocity template engine)