Introduction


The purpose of this page is to give you an understanding of how JSP works minimally (under Tomcat)

Minimal Directory Structure under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps

/ Html and jsp pages along with other files that must be visible to the client browser. This is the document root for your web application
WEB-INF/web.xml The web application deployment descriptor for application.
WEB-INF/classes If no class exists, directory may be omitted. Contain any java class files, including servlet and non servlet that are not combined into JAR file
WEB-INF/lib Contains JAR files such as 3rd party

Date and Time

Current Time using localtime 
$time = localtime; print "$time";

Output:

Fri May 28 10:06:09 2004

Current time using time 
$epochTime = time(); print "$epochTime";

Output:

1085710785

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