I finally got the template system working for my web app. At least a rudimentary version of a template system.

It uses a region tag library from Advanced Java Server Pages. The code in the book didn't exactly work, so it required a few tweaks. In order to get the thing up and running I had to add a debugger to my development environment. I'm using jswat - which seems okay. At the moment I am not able to get the program to attach source code to jsp's that don't exist in the main directory. Super annoying. I may write a letter.

At the moment the code is nothing special, and in retrospect I have spent most of my time learning some basics of java that are usually taken care of by eclipse. Here's a quick run-down of what I've put together on my machine to get rolling in the development phase of my super secret project.

Mac os x 10.4 -- upgrade from 10.3 -- required to run JDK 1.5
JDK 1.5 -- required to run jswat 3.0
tomcat 5.0
jswat 3.0
Vim (7.0)
Ant

My next step in the process is to get the forms to submit how I want them to submit. Basically this means running all the request and response stuff through a filter of some sort. Wish me luck, nerdy luck.

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