Tomcat and mysql

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Tambiah wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Was just wondering if anyone out there has set up Tomcat and MySQL for
> ".jsp" development? If using apt-get what packages would I require? How
> would I configure Tomcat and MySQL to talk to each other?

Go to the appfuse site.  Matt Raible has created an awesome framework for
building JSP apps - your choice of Spring MVC, Struts or JSF.

You can get a base app running in about two hours (and using MySql by
default), and then extend it however you like.  I used eclipse, and
candy4appfuse from sourceforge (and a 1.5 or better JDK - required by
Candy).

The only drawback (imo) is that appfuse v2 is using Maven which keeps
downloading entire apps (like Tomcat) outside of the ubuntu packaging
system.  Maven would be a really bright idea if Debian hadn't already
invented it :-)
-- 
derek