local WEB-INF/web.xml

[Paul_Wallace]

hello
        Why when I add:

         <listener>
 <listener-class>LoadMycompServletAtStartup</listener-class>
        </listener>

to a sparsely populated local web.xml file (webapps/mydir/WEB-INF/web.xml) 
does the system fail? (404 error). Without this addition, the page loads.
The servlet 'LoadMycompServletAtStartup' is 
webapps/mydir/WEB-INF/classes/LoadMycompServletAtStartup.java. Must a 
specific URL to the file be defined? The syntax above is the only addition 
made since the installation of Tomcat.

Thanks

paul.