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Installing and Using the Java Servlet SDK

Running The Servlet Examples

Now that the JSWDK Web Server is up and running, you can look at some of the examples that are running. To see examples on a web server running on your local machine, you need to be able to address your machine as a URL inside a web browser.

It so happens that there is a very cool convention that allows you to do this. By default, your local machine is called "localhost". If you prefer using IP addresses, "127.0.0.1" also refers to your local machine by convention. The port that the server runs on by default is 8080. Thus, two possible sample URLs would be "http://localhost:8080/" or "http://127.0.0.1:8080/". The figure below shows what the sample URL should look like in a browser.

The link to run the servlet examples is on the front page along with links to copious documentation about Servlets and JSPs. In addition, when you go to the examples, you can view the example source code as well as run them.

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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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