This application is a simple Hello World application which will output Hello World!! on the browser. It needs a Dynamic Web project and a JSP associated with it.

To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.

Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5)
Eclipse 3.3.1.1 (Eclipse Classic package of Europa distribution), which is platform specific
Web Tools Platform (WTP) 2.0.1
Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.5.1
Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.3.1
Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.3.1

Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial is organized in the following sections:

The application development will take you through the following:

Creating a Dynamic Web Project using Eclipse
Adding a JSP to the project
Run and Deploy

Creating a Dynamic Web Project using Eclipse

Launch Eclipse and Switch to Java EE perspective.
Right Click under project explorer and Select Dynamic Web Project as shown in the figure
Name the project as HelloWorld.
Keep default values for all the fields and Select Finish.

Adding a JSP to the project
Right Click on the project HelloWorld and create a new JSP as shown in the figure.
Give the name as hello.jsp and Select next. Select Finish on the next screen

Modify the code of hello.jsp as follows

hello.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World!!
</body>
</html>

Run and Deploy

Deploy the application on the server.
launch the application using http://localhost:8080/HelloWorld/hello.jsp
This will display HelloWorld!! on the browser window.

Creating a Dynamic Web Project using Eclipse

Adding a JSP to the project

Run and Deploy