Hints on making Java servlets work
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Note: This is just one possibility, others may work too.

1. Download and install TomCat 4.0 from
      http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
   In their words:
      "TomCat is the Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet 2.2 and
       JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.1 Technologies."
   Documentation on TomCat you can find from
      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/servlets/index.html
   An example of an online bookstore implementation using Java servlets can be found there.
   To run your own examples, you should place them under the "webapps" subdirectory of
   TomCat.

2. Make sure your java PATH is correctly set.
   Do not forget to set up the DSN to your database and do the SQL server registration
   (as in Project #2)

3. Set JAVA_HOME=d:\app\jdk1.3 (on machines in the CS labs)
   Set CLASSPATH= <directory_where_Tomcat_was_installed> \bin\servlet.jar

4. For the purposes of this assignment you do not need to place your files on the server -
   the local machine would be fine. But make sure you delete them at the end of the day, so that
   your work does remain yours.

   Run "startup" from the "bin" subdirectory of TomCat.
   This starts a pseudo web server on your local host machine using port 8080.
   To make sure all is ok, you may open up a browser and type
      http://localhost:8080/
   A sample TomCat page should appear, which if the server was not started, would not
   be there.
   Note: To stop the web server at anytime, run "shutdown". If you try to refresh the
   browser after you have stopped the server, an error should be reported. In particular
   you would need to shutdown and restart the server after you make changes to your servlet
   code in order to incorporate them.

5. Look at the Bookstore example and understand it well.
   Use ideas from
      http://home.att.net/~baldwin.rick/Advanced/Java682.htm
   to create your own HTML forms.

6. To register your servlets with the (locally running) web server, you need to
   create your own web.xml file (similar to the one in the Bookstore example) and
   place it in your own directory (under "webapps"). And yes - you need to be able
   to read some XML to do this :-)

7. Once you have the HTML forms ready and the servlets implemented and registered,
   your Web interface to the database will be ready to run. In the end it should look
   very similar to what you did in Project #2 in order to connect to the database.