JSP pages

I am very new to JSP . Inorder to test my example jsp pages, I need to install apache in my system. Thats when I saw a folder named apache inside an existing folder of an already installed application framework . Does that mean that I have already installed it in my system?? Inside the apache folder, there is a tomcat folder and inside the folder there are usual folders like bin,conf,logs,lib etc. The bin folder has bootstrap.jar,cataline.bat,commons-loggin-api.jar,setclasspath.jar, tomcat-juli.jar and version.bat. Do i need to install apache inorder to run my jsp pages??Or this existing folder is enough? If enough, How to use it to run my JSP pages? Can anybody help me??

for develop aim you just can unpack tomcat distributive and run it.
for run you need set up JAVA_HOME environment. then move in folder tomcat/bin and run startup.but.

I advice you read Head First JSP and Servlet, There are more detail elaborate it.

Thanks for that reply Petr..I installed,set the variables and started the server. It is getting started alright. But I cant run my jsp pages . I created a sample page and put the file in webaps folder. Tried to access the file by giving the foolwing in the URL :http://localhost/checkresult.jsp btut page not found is shown.I know something is missing..But what??

Where did you locate JSP page. Can you show path?

I placed my JSP file in webapps folder inside the apache home folder.
C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.12\webapps\Exmaple1.jsp

You need locate your jsp in webapps/ROOT or create a separate web app module.

Thanks...It worked.... :)