I've recently been using tomcat4, learning Java, and using it for Servlets and JSPs. Although I've written several CGIs in Perl, it seems to me that tomcat offers some stuff that's hard to do via CGI. The two that I'm most interested in are session objects and directory mapping -- the first allows for objects on the server to easily be stored and modified, with an association with an existing session without the user seeing or being able to mess with any of that stuff. The second allows a servlet, say ResourceManager.class, to be bound to all requests starting with the path "Resources/", and the servlet can use HttpServletRequest::getPathInfo() to get the path it was passed and respond accordingly. I would like to do the second without a redirect or any other such ugliness.

So, in sum, is there a way to do this kind of thing with Tomcat, or is there something similar to Tomcat that does for Perl what it does for Java?

In reply to Something like Tomcat for Perl by Improv

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