client 1. requests URL for html page server 2. retrieves html page 3. sends html page to client 4. browser interprets html page & displays Typical html Request/Response cycle
Tomcat Directory Structure (5.5) Tomcat-Base webapps work JAR files ROOT myApp1 myApp2 server.xml Tomcat-users.xm l WEB-INF lib classes web.xml bin common logs conf lib JAR Files