Integrating Tomcat with Apache Using XAMPP Part 1
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when someone wants to run Java or JSP pages on a XAMPP install and needs to see how Tomcat fits in.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2011 to 2012.
What it is
A 2008 screencast by Josh Van Buren showing how to connect the Tomcat servlet container to the Apache web server using the XAMPP bundle. It is part one of a two-part walkthrough and covers where Tomcat lives in the XAMPP folder tree and how to get JSP files served.
What people said
Recommends Shawn Bower · 2011-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Starting web programming in Java”
You can actually still use XAMPP. You just need to install tomcat. Here is a great screen cast on how to do it: [this video] . If your a mac user you can try MAMP (whcih I prefer) and follow [LINK] . To get Tomcat going.
Recommends berkay · 2012-09 · Stack Overflow · on “the xampp apache server also support in Java EE”
As stated in official xampp web page it supports: with the release of the new version of XAMPP 1.8.0, Apache 2.4.2 MySQL 5.5.25a PHP 5.4.4 phpMyAdmin 3.5.2 FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.41 Tomcat 7.0.28 (with mod_proxy_ajp as connector) Strawberry Perl 5.16.0.1 Portable XAMPP Control Panel 3.0.12 (from hackattack142) it seems with the tomcat server you can deploy your application if java configurations ( Java SE JDK 6 [LINK] ) are done properly. In this video [this video] (Integrating Tomcat with Apache Using XAMPP Part 1) it tells how to do it but basically you can put your jsp file to /xampp/tomcat/webapps folder. In my opinion starting using netbeans IDE and selecting the XAMPP server as a default
Cites BalusC · 2011-08 · Stack Overflow · on “xampp and tomcat and jsp oh my.. how do i tell if its working”
Make sure that the file has the .jsp extension and that it's been placed in a subfolder of /xampp/tomcat/webapps (and thus not there where you usually drop PHP files). See also: [this video]