Create the HTML in your development environment Create this HTML file, call it form.html, and save it in your development environment under the /beerV1/web/ directory.

Copy the file into the deployment environment Place a copy of the form.html file into tomcat/webapps/Beer-v1/. (Remember, your tomcat home directory might have a different name).

Create the DD in your development environment Create this XML document, name it web.xml, and save it in your development environment under the /beerV1/etc/ directory.

Copy the file into the deployment environment

Place a copy of the web.xml file into tomcat/webapps/Beer-v1/WEB-INF/.

You MUST place it there or the Container won’t find it and nothing will work, and you’ll become depressed.

Start Tomcat

Throughout this book we’re using Tomcat as both the web Server and the web Container. In the real world, you probably use a more robust Web Server (like Apache) configured with a Web Container (like Tomcat). But Tomcat makes a perfectly decent Web Server for everything we need to do in this book.

To start Tomcat, cd into the tomcat home directory and run bin/startup.sh.

Test the page

Open the HTML page in your browser and type:

http://localhost:8080/Beer-v1/form.html

You should see something like the screen shot here.