Time for action — installing Tomcat

Tomcat is an open source project from the Apache Software Foundation, the same guys that are behind Apache Roller. Isn't that great? In a few seconds, you're going to have in your hands one of the most popular and powerful Java servlet engines around, used by a lot of big industries and organizations worldwide. Ready for some action? Let's begin.

1. Open Mozilla Firefox and go to http://tomcat.apache.org. Look for the Download section and click on the Tomcat 6.x link:

   

2. Scroll down the Tomcat 6 Downloads web page until you locate the Binary Distributions section, and click on the tar.gz link from the Core category:

   

   Note

   The Tomcat version downloaded in this example is 6.0.18, but maybe you'll download a more recent version. Don't forget to change the 6.0.18 number in the following lines of code to the corresponding version you downloaded.

3. Select the Save File option in the Open apache-tomcat dialog box, click on the OK button and wait for the file to download...