Starting Web Application Development 1

In this blog, i will try to explain my experiences about building web applications that includes many populer frameworks and tools. I'm planning to introduce building pure web application and then i will tell adding populer tools to this web application like JSF, Spring, Hibernate etc. Whenever i add a tool or framework, i will explain why we did this and benefits of this. Also i will write all exceptions caused by jar incompatibles.
First, we will build Hello World application with Eclipse IDE, JSF Apache MyFaces implementation and Apache Tomcat. Required downloads for starting listed as below:

• Download Java EE + JDK then install default values.


• Download Eclipse IDE then extract (Eclipse doesnt come with a setup. You can just extract and run Eclipse).


• Download latest core - zip version Tomcat 6 then extract.


• Download MyFaces zip version then extract.
  

We will come to other tools but for now these are enough.

Note: JAVA_HOME variable must be added to environment variables to start Tomcat.