JSTL: JSP Standard Tag Library Kick Start By Jeff Heaton
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Appendix B. Installing JSTL and Tomcat
Now that you have Tomcat properly installed, you are ready to install the sample programs from this book. You can download these programs from http://www.samspublishing.com/. The examples are packaged as one Web directory that you can copy to the Tomcat Web server. This directory contains both the examples and JSTL 1.0. This is the easiest way to install the examples. However, there are times when you may want to directly install each component. Later in this appendix, we explain how to install JSTL without the book examples.
Tomcat stores all of the Web files it needs in a directory named webapps. When you download the examples that come with this book, you'll notice that the Zip archive includes a directory named webapps, which contains all of the book examples. Simply overwrite your Tomcat Web server's webapps directory with this one from Sams. Figure B.5 shows the directory structure.