Re: New to servlets: Parameter initialisation in web.xml

[Rob S.]

> I have written a couple of example servlets which I
> placed in the \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes folder,
> and these work ok

Good =)
 
> Since I was using the \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes
> folder for my servlets, I altered the web.xml in
> /ROOT/WEB-INF.

Good so far...
 
> hmm, why is this?

Can you paste the relevant web.xml portion?

- r