Bonjour et vive la France! Many thanks indeed for your very useful advice, which was very helpful and saved me a lot of time.
After completely uninstalling the version of Glassfish I had, I downloaded the version given in the link you sent, and installed it following the instructions. The test file hello.war is now shown as localhost:8080/hello and the file login.war I put together a few days ago following the instructions in chapter 1 of "Core JavaServer Faces" by D.Geary and C.Horstmann also works. So it looks as if I can now move on. Perhaps you could be so kind as to show me how I can make these pages visible from another computer on the same network.
This is part of a project I started earlier in the year when in France, when I put together the client side of the code. A version (not fully tested or debugged) is at
http://csharp.com/simulator/simulator.html where nothing is submitted to a server yet. It will eventually be hosted on a different domain.
csharpdotcom
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