Thom Park wrote:
> I'm having Yet Another Servlet Mapping Problem.
>
> I'm trying to disable the /servlet/ mapping with my web-application. Here's the
> gist of what's happening.
>
> My webapp is called "songs" it get's deployed according to J2EE specs. In the
> webapps folder there's a
> songs folder with an html file called songs_index.html.
>
> in songs\WEB-INF, I put my servlet into the classes folder (and some dependent
> jars in the lib folder).
>
> In web.xml I add the following:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>listSongs</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>com.music.songs.ListSongServlet</servlet-class>
> </servlet>
>
Add the following mapping in web.xml:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>listSongs</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/listSongs/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-name>
and the following URL will work:
http://localhost:8080/songs/listSongs
You don't really need to "turn off" the default mapping -- what we are doing here is
defining a new one. You should also know that the path used in a mapping need not
have the same name as your servlet class. For instance, if you change the mapping
above to this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>listSongs</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/list/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-name>
then the correct URL would be
http://localhost:8080/songs/list
instead.
The rules for servlet mappings are found in the servlet API specification, which can
be downloaded from
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
Craig McClanahan
