Apache and JSPs

I am trying to get some information about how to correctly configure Apache so I can use JSPs.
I am in the process of reading a book on the topic of JSPs and it indicates that the only thing I need is Apache and JSERV. I downloaded JSERV and installed it without any problems, but am having difficulty getting the JSPs to work. Also, the Java Apache project points me to a tool called Tomcat and seems to indicate that JSERV by itself is not enough for this to work.
Does anyone have an idea how to configure this correctly, where the JSPs should be located, where I should point these tools (my java binary or another set of files?) and anything else that might prove useful.
Thanks in advance.

You should forget about the JSERV, instead start using Tomcat as your servlet container.
The reason is Tomcat is supporting Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 . As for Jserv it is having older verison of it, and need further configuration in order to support JSP.

So download Tomcat, and extract it into a folder. You can have 2 choice, run Tomcat as a standalone or intergrate it with apache. The following will teach you how to install Tomcat http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/uguide/tomcat_ug.html

while this will teach you how to integrate with apache http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/tomcat-apache-howto.html

So first of all you should try install as stand alone first. Then only proceed to the integration. Steps for running tomcat is easy, there is 2 path you need to set
1. JAVA_HOME = the directory of ur jdk
2. TOMCAT_HOME = the directory of your tomcat

Thats all.......