Issues with web.xml

[Robert Seeger]

I'm having issues with the web.xml file in my webapps/root/web-inf 
directory. What I want to do is be able to specify each individual 
servlet that can be run, by using <servlet> and <servlet-mapping> tags. 
Unfortunately, the best I have been able to do is use a generic servlet 
invoker to allow every servlet to be accessed. When I try to set things 
up so that only one servlet can be accessed, there are errors showing up 
in the dos box when I start Tomcat... which proceed to scroll of the 
screen faster than I can look at them. They do not show up in any of the 
logfiles in the logs directory. I was hoping someone could take a look 
at the web.xml file I'm using and tell me if my error is an obvious one, 
and how to fix it. I tried everything I could think of to make it work, 
and checked all the documentation I could find.

I'm running Tomcat 4.1.24 on Windows 98.

Thank you in advance,
Robert Seeger
---------- Working web.xml, that allows all servlets in the directory to 
be accessed ----------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
   PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
   "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
<web-app>

 <display-name>Tomcat Examples</display-name>
 <description>
   Tomcat Example servlets and JSP pages.
 </description>
   <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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---------- Non-working web.xml that causes errors ----------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
   PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
   "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
<web-app>

 <display-name>Tomcat Examples</display-name>
 <description>
   Tomcat Example servlets and JSP pages.
 </description>
 <servlet>
   <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
   <servlet-class>HelloWorld</servlet-class>
   <description>
     My test servlet
   </description>
 </servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/HelloWorld</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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