solution for my project

[themburu]

hi everyone i'm kinda new to java, which i got into since i'm working on a project in it. here is my project
I'm building a webbased application which would evaluate distances 'something similar to googlemaps but local around campus' besides evaluting routes it should give an analysis of what is around -this info will be retrieved from a db 'mysql'.
so my problem is implementing it, I have a java code for evaluating distances but I'm told I need applets for display on web-browser and also servelets/jsp for processing which i found out don't run on Apache.
Who might have a logical guide of implementing this project or some similar work?

[danielstoner]

You don't really need applets. There are other solutions. Google Maps doesn't use applets

[themburu]

The reason behind the project is really to learn java, thus I decided to tackle spartial markings using java.
Here's how i plan to implement it.

1. the Web interface is divided into 4 frames.
2. one frame is where the user passes his requests for instance direction/route (for this I have an applet). this requests are the passed for processing by servelets/jsp which returns its results in another frame thus providing the marked routes.
3. For the other two frames is where teh results of SQL queries are to be returned for the purpose eg ecommerce.

[danielstoner]

Good, but you still don't need applets for this. Look into plain servlets/JSP in the beginning if what you want to do is learn.

[themburu]

I understand that, the problem was that I have been tryng my best to avoid JSP's reason being because of the challenge of integrating tomcat to apache though thats not much since I acquired Apache-tomcat whose documentation and howto's I dont want to read, so you see I really wanted to stck to the plain Apache but now it seems inevitable.
Ok would you direct me to the best ie easiest to learn tutorials on jsp/servelets?