I've got a situation where I need to initialize some session variables
the first time in. I'd like to start execution with a servlet rather
than a .html or .jsp page. I tried to use:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>StartServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
But I blew the stack since that caused my attempts to call anything else
to come right back to the StartServlet.
I know I can use <url-pattern>/start/*</url-pattern>
and tell the user to go to http://wheverer/whatever/start
but if they go to http://wheverer/whatever, which is natural, I would
like them to get what they expect. I know I could put a redirection
page to force them to go to the "start" url, but I think there's gotta
be a way to do this. I have done a web search, but there aren't any
unique terms that I could think of to describe the question and didn't
find anything useful.
Thanks for any pointers.
Jim.
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