What is Servlet?

Servlet is part of the J2EE standard and is basically a packaging and interfacing structure for putting applications into a server.  It means (theoretically) that you can take your servlet that you have build and put it into a range of different J2EE "servlet containers" and the servlet will run.  Here are some servlet containers that may or may not be suitable for your purposes;

• Tomcat
• Jetty
• WebSphere
• WebLogic

There are some existing notes that I have written on building WebObjects applications as servlets and how to deploy this into Tomcat.

It is possible to assemble your WebObjects application into a servlet using the woproject ant tasks.  Here we assume that you have setup your project with the eclipse tools and that you have the boiler-plate ant build file already.

License

WebObjects requires a license to run.  Create a text file in the top level of your project and copy the license string into this file.  It will have the format X-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX wherein you obviously need to replace the X-s with letters and digits.

SSDD

1. Load the build.xml file up and locate the section called <!-- ssdd target --> - run through the instructions there.
2. The web.xml file is used to configure the servlet once it is running inside the servlet container.  This is build from a template web.xml.template as stated in the header <-- TODO

You may need to modify the web.xml file for your specific deployment purposes.