new to Tomcat..

[Vivek Behal]

Hi,
     I am new to tomcat. I've installed tomcat 5.0.28 on my machine. I
developed a servlet and put it in the webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes folder.
Then I modified the web.xml file according to that. it is working very fine.
but if I put a .html file, a simple static hello.html in the webapps\ROOT
then I use  the explorer http://localhost:8080/hello.html
<http://localhost:8080/hello.html> 
I get page not found error. Could you suggest me what is the problem?
 
Regards,
Vivek Behal.