where is the best place to start learning about servlet/tomcat?

Question

I need to start developing using this technology servlets/jsp with tomcat. I need to get up to speed fairly quick. What would you recommend to get up there fairly quick? No 900+ pages manuals. A good tutorial (even a video lectures) with lots of examples would be perfect.

Thanks

Answer 1

• Check out simple.souther.us
• Hanging out at JavaRanch is a good idea
• Getting a Head First Servlet and JSP is worth it
• J2EE tutorial is good to go too

Answer 2

CoreServlets.com has a good tutorial using Tomcat 6.0:

http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/

or if you prefer a visual approach then check out this video (wchi additionally introduces Eclipse and WTP into the mix - but it's a good practice to use this to develop simple web applications):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l0CFxdroTE

Answer 3

I would install Tomcat, and look at all of the included examples. Each example shows a different feature or way of using Tomcat. If you start tomcat up with the defaults, you should be able to go straight to http://localhost:8080/examples to view them.