My First JSP Page - hello.jsp

∟My First JSP Page - hello.jsp

This section provides a tutorial example on how to create the first JSP page with JSP code to test the JSP support of the Tomcat Web server.

The next thing I need to test is to create Web page with JSP (JavaServer Page) codes.

1. Create a text file called hello.jsp with the following JSP code:

<html><body>
<% out.println("Hello world! -- From JSP"); %>
</body></html>

2. Save this JSP file to the default application folder:

\local\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\hello.jsp

3. Run a Web browser with this URL: http://localhost:8080/hello.jsp. You should see the "Hello world! -- From JSP" message in the browser:

Congratulations again! Now, we have confirmed that Tomcat server is running as a Web server that supports JSP pages:

Name your JSP files with the .jsp extension like, some-page.jsp.
Save your JSP files to the default folder, C:\local\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\, to serve it as a JSP page.
Visit your JSP page with the base URL and file name like, http://localhost:8080/some-page.jsp.