OK, I am working on creating a web.xml file. I started out by looking at the web.xml that will be found in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/WEB-INF. I wanted to see what was in it that allowed the HelloWorldExample to work. Nowhere in the web.xml was there a reference to this servlet. As a matter of fact, the only servlets listed were ones that were in subdirectories below the /WEB-INF/classes subdirectory. Which would leave me to believe that as long as I have my classes in /WEB-INF/classes, I should be able to run this servlet even with a blank web.xml. Am I wrong here? Am I missing something? Thanks
----Original Message Follows---- From: Walter De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Just trying to make some sense out of all this tomcat(newbie) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:40:13 +0100 I can give you the same answer as I gave to an our or two before: I think you forgot the web.xml file which contains the mapping between the URL and the servlet class file. In web.xml which must be situated in WEB-INF directory, for each servlet there must be a servlet-mapping entry: <servlet> <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>subdirectory1.subdirectory2.subdirectory3.servlet1.class</ser vlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/pathie/doMyServlet</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> Now calling http://localhost:8080/MyWebapp/pathie/doMyServlet will start the servlet1.class. The servlet1.class must be situated in WEB-INF/classes/subdirectory1/subdirectory2/subdirectory3/ or in a jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory. Maybe you should read some documentation about a .war file (which is a .jar), or open one of the examples delivered together with Tomcat. -----Original Message----- From: Donald Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 17 januari 2002 12:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Just trying to make some sense out of all this tomcat(newbie) Ok, if anybody can explain in plain english why this is the way it is. while trying to download and install a servlet and being very unsuccessful, I started investigating the example servlets. I went to the simplest one called HelloWorldExample. It appears to be working, when I look in the browser address it's set to http://lnxwebsvr:8080/examples/servlet/HelloWorldExample. when I look at my directory structure. /var/tomcat4/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/HelloWorldExample.class where is it defined in tomcat that "servlet" is to replace the actual path "WEB-INF/classes"? I think this may be related to why my newly installed servlet will not run. Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
