JavaServer Pages, Second Edition

1.5 Trying the Examples

All the examples in this book have been included on the companion CD-ROM, so readers can see them in action and experiment with changes. The CD-ROM also includes Tomcat, the high-performance JSP engine provided for free by the Apache project, at http://jakarta.apache.org. The version included is 5.0, the first implementation of the JSP 2.0 and servlet 1.3 specifications.

The CD-ROM also includes a number of third-party libraries that provide useful utilities. These libraries include HypersonicSQL, a file-based database written in Java; Jaxen, a set of Java classes for working with XML; and the Canetoad utilities, which provide a number of utilities for working with beans.

Instructions for installing and running the examples can be found in the index.html file on the CD-ROM. Most users can simply double-click this file to get started.