Default servlet mapping

[Lukasz Szelag]

Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone experienced any problems with default servlet mapping 
in Tomcat 4.1x? Here is an excerpt from my web.xml file:

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name>MainPage</servlet-name>
        <jsp-file>/index.jsp</jsp-file>
    </servlet>

.....

   <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MainPage</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
 
However, when pointing the browser to the root page (or any page) the log shows the 
following:

2003-02-07 16:17:12 ApplicationDispatcher[] Servlet.service() for servlet MainPage 
threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:248)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:684)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:575)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:498)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:820)
        at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:497)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:136)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:204)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:289)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:240)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
..................

Looks like the stack trace shows exceptions being thrown recursively so the above 
section goes on...

Thanks for any help,

Lukasz Szelag