Need Help

Hi Friends,
I'm a beginner for Servlet.Till now has not done bit on Servlet.But has a desire to learn.
I've JDk1.4,in my classpath.Now how do i start with Servlet.What all i should have?.plz help me out in getting along with u people in learning and contiributing our ideas.
Thanx in Advance
Prashanth

Hi, what you need is a Servlet Container, which is basically like a web server for servlets. The most popular one is Apache Tomcat, which you can download from the apache site under jakarta. This will com with everything you need, to compile a servlet you need to add the servlet jar file to your class path.

Following what Tim said, Tomcat documentation is excellent. If you have any specific questions let us know.
happy reading

Thanx friends,
Ok i would download Tomact and start working.U've already encouraged me to get back to u when ever i come across doubts or problems.Thanx for boosting my confidence.
cheers
Prashu_bk

One more vote for Tomcat here. Very excellent product.
I'd also suggest reading something like this book to get a very good understanding of Servlets.
One more thing, I suggest you learn the Servlet Spec/API first. If you later want to learn a framework (STRUTS, WebWork, Turbine, etc...), then you can do that also. Since all of these sit on top of the Servlet API, you are always better off knowing it first, in my opinion.
Good luck.

Just a reminder that I have a summary of the key points of several free servlet/JSP containers in my shoosing a servlet container page.