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Installing and Using the Java Servlet SDK

Installing the JSWDK

Installing the JSWDK is simple. Simply extract the archive file into the directory of your choice. As of this writing, the latest JSWDK is version 1.0.1, so the root directory to install into is, by default: "jswdk-1.0.1". The figure below illustrates the options you would set if you were extracting the JSWDK files using winzip.

Note that there are several important options ticked here. First, all files are selected for extraction. Second, "Use Folder Names" is turned on. This allows the extraction to preserve the orgiginal directory structure. In this case, we are extracting to the root of the "C:" drive and therefore wish to preserve the directory structure so that the default "jswdk-1.0.1" directory and the others underneath it are written to the drive.

That's it. Assuming you have installed a JDK 1.1 or 1.2 (JDK2), then you should be able to run "startserver.bat" inside the jswdk-1.0.1 directory to start the web server. Some installations of Win98 or Win95 may complain that not enough environment space exists if you run the batch file from within a DOS window. If this happens to you, go into the memory properties for the DOS program and increase the environment to a larger number such as 4096. The figure below illustrates the DOS window you will see when the servlet engine is active.

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Gunther Birznieks contributes to JavaBoutique's Web/Networking column. Gunther currently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has previously worked as a senior computer scientist in the Human Genome Project. Gunther is also known for writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java) as well as for co-creating Extropia with Selena Sol. Extropia is one of the best known public domain web programming archives Email: gunther@extropia.com.

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