Take a look at your web.xml for the directory mappings.
The coreservlets.name is merely a pointer to coreservlets/name.class i
guess.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Webber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: den 30 augusti 2001 03:36
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: It worked - Can someone explain why?
>
>
> I am working through a book on servlets and JSPs. JSPs and
> beans are pretty
> easy, and I understand how things fit together - still want
> to work on some
> JDBC stuff, but that's later.
> In the meantime, I wrote a servlet as part of a package
> called coreservlets.
> I finally went through the examples that came with Tomcat and
> noticed in the
> source that it didn't use packages and figured out both how
> to invoke my
> servlets and where to place the class file so that it would work. The
> question is why it works this way - what is going on under the covers?
> I placed my servlet class file in a directory like
> $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/coreservlets/nam
> e.class. On
> the URL in my browser, I typed in the following:
> http://host/examples/servlet/coreservlets.name - and it worked!!!
> So the confusion I have is due to the fact that the directory
> path names
> don't match where the servlet is located. Can anyone explain
> this? I'm
> sure this is pretty straightforward - and if some document points this
> ut - if you could point me to that I'll take it from there.
> Thanks.
>
