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4.1. Registering Web Applications

With servlets 2.2 and later (JSP 1.1 and later), Web applications are portable. Regardless of the server, you store files in the same directory structure and access them with URLs in identical formats. For example, Figure 4-1 summarizes the directory structure and URLs that would be used for a simple Web application called webapp1. This section will illustrate how to install and execute this simple Web application on different platforms.

Figure 4-1. Structure of the webapp1 Web application.

Although Web applications themselves are completely portable, the registration process is server specific. For example, ...