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.

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.

SSDD

Load the build.properties file up and edit the line which reads webXML = false and make this true.

Load the build.xml file up and locate the section called <!-- ssdd target -->.