Basics

Preliminary Considerations

This section discusses a few issues to be aware of before you start developing. The following topics are covered:

Installation and Configuration Overview

Installation and configuration, primarily for key non-Oracle environments, is covered in Appendix A, "General Installation and Configuration".

For installation and configuration of Oracle environments that support OracleJSP, consult the documentation for the particular Oracle product.

Within Oracle8i, the Oracle Servlet Engine (OSE) incorporates OracleJSP and is provided with Oracle8i JServer.

Development Environments Versus Deployment Environments

JSP developers targeting a non-Oracle environment, such as Apache/JServ, typically develop in the same environment as the target environment. In this case, the installation and configuration instructions in Appendix A, "General Installation and Configuration" apply to both the development environment and the deployment environment, although some of the configuration parameters are of interest only during development.

JSP developers targeting the Oracle Servlet Engine or some other Oracle environment have at least two development options:

Use Oracle JDeveloper for development and deployment.

JDeveloper incorporates OracleJSP and a servlet container for use in testing during development. It also incorporates features to help you deploy the finished product to the target location.

See "Oracle JDeveloper Support for OracleJSP" for an introduction to OracleJSP support in JDeveloper. Refer to JDeveloper documentation for installation and configuration instructions.
Develop and test in a non-Oracle environment such as Apache/JServ before deploying to the target Oracle environment for final testing and end use.

In this case, the information in Appendix A is presumably of interest to you for your development environment.

After testing in the development environment, you can pre-translate the JSP pages and deploy them to the Oracle8i database using command-line tools available with the OracleJSP installation. The OracleJSP command-line translator has options that are equivalent to relevant translation-time configuration parameters. For information, see "The ojspc Pre-Translation Tool" and "Deployment to Oracle8i with Client-Side Translation".

For information about installing and configuring any of the Oracle environments that support OracleJSP, refer to the documentation for the particular product.

Client-Side Considerations

JSP pages will run with any standard browser supporting HTTP 1.0 or higher.

The JDK or other Java environment in the end-user's Web browser is irrelevant, because all the Java code in a JSP page is executed in the Web server or data server.