<p>I am fairly comfortable with standalone Java app development, but will soon be working on a project using a Java EE application server.</p>

<p>Does anyone know of a straightforward how-to tutorial to getting a hello-world type application working in an application server? I'm (perhaps naievly) assuming that the overall approach is similar between different frameworks, so I'm more interested in finding out the approach rather than getting bogged down in differences between the different frameworks.</p>

<p>If you are not aware of a good guide, then could you post bullet-point type steps to getting a hello-world running?, i.e.</p>

<ol>
<li>Download XX</li>
<li>Write some code to do YY</li>
<li>Change file ZZ</li>
<li>Other steps...</li>
</ol>

<p>Note: Just because I have a windows machine at home, I would prefer to run if this could be run on windows, but in the interest of a better answer, linux/mac based implementations are welcome.</p>

The JavaEE (they dropped the 2) space is pretty big. A good tutorial to start is
the one from Sun
. For a simple hello world application, the web container only would suffice. A well known servlet jsp container is tomcat. See
here
for installation instructions. Try installing it with eclipse and create a web project. This will generate some files for you that you can look at and edit. Also starting and stopping the application server is simpler.