I’ve gone through a great deal of information in the course of this chapter to select and install a JDK, Ant, and Tomcat in a variety of ways. In the majority of cases, the installation of the server is a straightforward process, because binary versions are available for the common platforms.
If you have any problems, http://jakarta.apache.org has a number of lists that can be helpful to the beginner. The user list is also archived, and you’ll find that most questions have been asked, and answered, before.