Tomcat has following folders bin, common, conf, logs, server,
shared, temp and webapps The classpath is an environment
variable that tells the java compiler javac.exe where to look
for class files to import or java.exe where to find class files
to interpret. The path is an environment variable that tells the
command processor where to look for executable files. e.g.
*.exe, *.com and *.bat files. Compiling a servlet You require to
include in your classpath D:\j2sdk1.4.2_03\lib\tools.jar, where
j2sdk1.4.2_03 is a java installation. now you can compile
servlet source file, with javac Servlet_sourcename.java Setting
tomcat to allow servlets to run create your WApp folder
containing web application this contains WEB-INF and folders
like classes, lib and web.xml folders. In web.xml folder of
above web application you require to include Add following text
in tomcat_instal\conf\server.xml before </Host> tag To execute
servlet on Tomcat server at classpath include tomcat_dir\bin and
type at command prompt startup will