HELP - Java & Web Hosting

[CodEJunki]

Pls Help,

Not a newbie but new to Java. I am coding a web app and my host says
they support Java but not sure what I need to do on the server or
client side. Currently anything I put on the site comes back in xml
form when i call it in a browser using .jsp.

They said..."Java is supported on your server. The server has
j2sdk1.4.0 setup on it. You should be able to install and run java
programs."

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am interested in exploring
and perhaps using java and jsp for some web apps. The goals is to
write and offer web apps in php and jsp.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Pls Help,

Not a newbie but new to Java. I am coding a web app and my host says
they support Java but not sure what I need to do on the server or
client side. Currently anything I put on the site comes back in xml
form when i call it in a browser using .jsp.

They said..."Java is supported on your server. The server has
j2sdk1.4.0 setup on it. You should be able to install and run java
programs."

I think there's a difference between "Java is supported on your
server" and having a server that's a servlet container. I suspect that
you could write CGI programs in Java, and their j2sdk would be used to
run those programs. That statement does not convince me that they
provide a servlet container.

But I can't figure out why you're getting XML when you invoke a JSP
page.

 

[CodEJunki]

any ideas? What should I be seeing/expecting when uploading? I use
wsftp pro