seeing somebody having some prob with a certain software and solving it in myjug (malaysia java users group) kind of reminds me of my experience with that software quite some time ago.
I remember my first encounter with tomcat.. I was desperately looking for a solution with a problem I had. When I was doing my industrial training, I used iPlanet Application Server, and when I got back to university for my final semester of the final year, I need to write a web application for my final year project.
Like most students, I procrastinate and left the coding till 5 days before submission. And I installed iAS to start coding, and it failed. No CD key (damn).
So I got back Java Web Server (or something like that, JWS, JSWDK, either one) which I used so much earlier on during the course of my very first phase of servlets and jsps learning cycle, and installed it. I managed to install it and I start coding. All went well until the next 2 days when....
there was some problems with my codes. I checked, and re-checked, and found that there is nothing wrong with my codes. Then I found out that JWS (and even jswdk) at that time doesn't support JSP 1.1, only 1.0 (cannot use RequestDispatcher). iAS supports 1.1, therefore I used to be able to use RequestDispatcher to redirect pages. Since I can't use iAS, and I used RequestDispatcher all over my servlets, I was neck-deep in deep shit.
I scrambled off to find other servlet runners, and I stumbled onto Tomcat. Installed it, and miraculously my code ran without hitches.
P.S. In case any of you are wondering what I got for that project, I got an A :)
