RE: How to specify a servlet as a main page

[Johnson, Robert]

You might try putting a jsp page called default.jsp in the root of you web
application.  Just put the following lines in the default.jsp.

<jsp:forward page="start"/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ismael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:26 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: How to specify a servlet as a main page


Hi all,

Until now I have been using a boot.jsp page as the main entry point to my 
application. But now I have changed it to a servlet.

On the web.xml I have made a servlet mapping,

   <servlet>
                 <servlet-name>boot</servlet-name>
                 <servlet-class>com.testing.es.start.Boot</servlet-class>
         </servlet>
         <servlet-mapping>
                 <servlet-name>boot</servlet-name>
                 <url-pattern>/start</url-pattern>
         </servlet-mapping>


the if I write http://localhost/context/start it goes to this servlet.

I would like that whenever the user writes http://localhost/context it is 
redirected to the boot servlet.

I have tried it by putting a servlet mapping only with /  but it does not
work.

I have tried also with the welcome-file-list
        
         <welcome-file-list>
                <welcome-file>boot</welcome-file>
         </welcome-file-list>

and it does not work.

How should I do it?

Thanks