Hi,
The class itself and web.xml look fine (though we usually tell people to
put servlet-name before url-pattern in the servlet-mapping element, for
backwards compatibility and/or historical reasons).  There's no reason
it should work in a jar.  Webapps/test/WEB-INF/lib is the right place to
put that jar.  What are tomcat:tomcat permissions?  The permissions
should be such that the server user can read the jar.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Labhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:39 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: n00b cannot get jar files to work.
>
>How do I get jar files to work?
>
>Learning Tomcat I have a simple "HelloServlet" class.  When compiled
and
>the
>class file is inserted into the directory
>
>       /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/classes/example
>
>and the web.xml file given below is placed in
>
>       /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/
>
>and tomcat is restarted then the url
>
>http://localhost:8080/test/hello
>
>page reads:
>
>       Hello, world!
>
>But if the same class is placed in a jar file and this jar file is
inserted
>into any of the following directories and given permissions
tomcat:tomcat
>
>       /opt/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/lib
>       /opt/tomcat/common/lib
>       /opt/tomcat/shared/lib
>
>when tomcat is restarted and the same url is addressed first there is
>
>       < Blank page >
>
>the second time the page is refreshed there is
>
>       Status 500:
>       javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet
class
>
>       example.HelloServlet or a class it depends on
>
>and the third and all subsequent times the page is refreshed there is
>
>       Status 400:
>        Servlet hello is not available
>
>How do I get jar files to work?  Thank you.
>
>-- Michael
>
>Appendix:
>
>web.xml file:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
><web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";
>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
>http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";
>    version="2.4">
>  <servlet>
>    <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
>    <servlet-class>example.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
>  </servlet>
>
>  <servlet-mapping>
>    <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
>    <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
>  </servlet-mapping>
></web-app>
>
>
>HelloServlet.java:
>
>package example;
>
>import java.io.*;
>import java.util.*;
>
>import javax.servlet.http.*;
>import javax.servlet.*;
>
>public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {
>  public void doGet (
>        HttpServletRequest      req,
>        HttpServletResponse     res
>    ) throws ServletException, IOException
>  {
>    res.setContentType("text/html");
>    PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter();
>
>    pw.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
>Transitional//EN\">");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("<head>");
>    pw.println("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;
>charset=ISO-8859-1\">");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("<!-- The Servlet expression tags interpolate script
>variables
>into the HTML -->");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("<title>Hello, world!</title>");
>    pw.println("</head>");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("<body bgcolor=white>");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>");
>    pw.println();
>    pw.println("</body>");
>    pw.close();
>  }
>
>  public HelloServlet() {}
>}
>
>
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