On Web-Server Web-server that supports Servlet and JSP (check version of support)   Glassfish IBM WebSphere Jetty (simple) Grizzly Apache Tomcat/TomEE (sits on top of Tomcat) Oracle's WebLogic JBoss Resin Apache Geronimo jersey JRun JAVA WebProfiles = allows server to only serve sub-sets of APIs for improved performance of server e.g. SOA centric “headless” applications might use features like messaging, remoting, SOAP and REST but have no use for JSF or JSP. e.g. you might have the need to have server only serve a bunch of JSPs, servlets that have no need for remoting,etc.

On Your Development Machine See outline for current requirements (e.g. Glassfish, JDK-latest, Eclipse with glassfish pluggin)