Step 1 Java, Hibernate, Struts, Tomcat, Eclipse, mySQL, JSP, Servlets, AJAX Tutorial with Testing

When I was learning some J2EE technology, I never quite found a tutorial that covered all the areas that I wanted to learn with easy step by step instructions. So I am going to attempt to do that here. If you find my tutorial helpful, please leave a comment, and if you know of something I should mention to help you, then you can leave a comment about that too.

All the technologies that I will mention are open source so you can download them directly to your computer.

Assumptions:

I am assuming you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista, and I am assuming that you have some programming experience in Java. You will also need to know how to use the web. If you need to learn JAVA first, you can visit the following tutorials.

Some tutorials are:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
http://www.javabeginner.com/
http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/CatalogJava.htm/

You will also need to be familiar with HTML and XML.
XML tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
HTML tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

If you are a beginner Java programmer and you want to get familiar with a beginning Java IDE, you can download BlueJay at:
http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html

Step 1 download needed files :

You will need to make sure you have the technology installed on your computer.
You should put these entire downloads in a separate folder for when we need them.

Download Tomcat 5.5 (select the zip link under the Binary Distributions Core): http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi

Download Eclipse (Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (85 MB) select a mirror to download eclipse from:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/eclipse-java-ganymede-win32.zip

Download the Tomcat Eclipse plugin from (tomcatPlughV321.zip version 3.2.1): http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html

I am going to start with a tutorial for Struts 1 because Struts 2 is quite different. So visit this website and download struts-1.3.8-all.zip. http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts20112

Download mySQL (windows ZIP/Setup.EXE): http://mysql.llarian.net/downloads/mysql/5.1.html

Download Hibernate from (hibernate-distribution-3.3.0.SP1-dist.zip): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40712&package_id=127784&release_id=620785/&abmode=1

The c3p0-0.9.1.2 jar file is included in the Hibernate download or you can download it separately from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25357
You will need this for hibernate to manage your connection pool.

You also need a version of xerces and xalan for Struts.
You should download Xerces-J-bin.1.4.4.zip from http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-j/

and

xalan-j_2_7_1
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/xalan-j


You can download JAVA 1.5 here if you do not already have it: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
I would download Java JDK 5.0 with Java EE

After downloading all of your needed files for this tutorial, go to step two for set up and configuration.

Go To Step 2