Welcome to the 2nd article

Welcome to the second article in this series. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

If you would like to get started using Maven, I suggest following the instructions from the first article.

If you would like to use Ant, unzip the zip file (I suggest getting the zip file with the jars if your bandwidth permits), then run ant inside of the root folder of the unzipped zip file. This will create a war file in the target directory. Copy this war file to the hot deploy directory of your app server (I used Tomcat 5.x), and you are ready to test.

 

Here are the source folders.

Zip File no Jars

Zip File With Jars (7MB)

 

Tip: The source code uses Tiles to do the site layout. Look at the folder src/webapp/WEB-INF/pages.jsp to see the actual JSP pages that we discuss in the article.