HOW TO COMPILE AND RUN SERVLET PROGRAM

    1)      SAVE SERVLET PROGRAM IN BELOW DIRECTORY OF YOUR MACHINE

C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes

    

    2)      SET ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE

JUST GO TO MY COMPUTER

RIGHT CLICK ON IT .

GO TO PROPERTIES

        3)      GO TO ADVANCED TAB

CLICK ON ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE TAB

         4)      SET THE FOLLOWING PATH

i)        CLASSPATH

                  Variable name: CLASSPATH

                  Variable value: C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\common\lib\servlet.jar; C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06;

                   PATH ABRIVIATION

                   CLASSPATH

                   Path up to Apache tomcat\common\lib\servlet.jar file,then semicolon followed by jdk directory.

ii)      PATH

                  Variable name: PATH

                  Variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin;

                  PATH ABRIVIATION

                   PATH

                    Path up to jdk\bin directory .

       5)      AFTER THAT COPY servlet.jar FILE FROM

          C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\common\lib

          AND PASTE IN FOLLOWING DIRECTORY

          C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\ext

          OPEN COMMAND PROMPT & COMPILE SOURCE PROGRAM

          6)      Start tomcat server,

          7)      Go to Internet Explorer, Type following URL

         http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/Nameof yourServlet

          8)      Thank you