I plan on learning to build web services using java. Can you tell me what softwares I need? Is the regular jdk 1.6.0 that I have installed sufficient? Or do I need a different version?
By the way I am trying follow instruction from a book and tomcat is installed twice in the book's example. First its installed in the home folder as a servlet !container! and then its installed in the /usr/local/ folder as a web server. Is this a typo? Should I follow these directions?
These questions will definately get better answers in the Java forum.
For the first one; it depends what kind of web application you're developing. You have the standard JDK which is fine for web-deployed desktop applications but not ideal because you need to create client-server pairs and/or get past security rules, You have the mobile device JDK (J2ME) which will probably be very web-orientated these days, and things like JSP for 'webpage applications' which you're probably considering if you want to use Tomcat...
For the second one; I imagine that the installation in a home directory is for a modifiable folder, and the installation in the /usr/ folder is for program binaries. Don't take that as an authoritative answer though... I haven't ever used JSP or Tomcat; I'm sure someone who has will be more helpful; and there's a large chance there'll be more of them watching the Java forum than the XML forum.
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