Apache, JSP and Jakarta setup question

[Alpha Zenon Sanchez]

Hello Linux Users:


1. I wanted to play around (test develop and teach
myself) 
some Java Servlets Programming **Locally Without**
having to configure Apache
and Linux to work as a Network server. Is this
possible?

2. Can Apache serve .html pages and .jsp pages to a
local computer even if it is not
   configured to be on the network?  My idea is to use
the computer's loopback address
   to emulate a 'network' setting for Apache, my
computer and the browswer.  Is this 
   possible?

3. If not possible, am i stuck to learn Samba and need
a 'true' client/server environment
   with a server and a workstation to develop .jsp
pages?

I plan to use Apache, Jakarta Tomcat and MySQL for
testing and learning.
I'm currently using Redhat 7.2 and KDE as a desktop
environment.

Thanks in advance....

BTW - any DeVry guys out there?

 

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Thanks,
Alpha Zenon Sanchez

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