Aaron Freeman said:
> Ok, here's a stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hignorant newbie question.
>
> I have downloaded and installed the VelocityView tools as recommended.  I
> placed the simple.war file into my webapps directory and I used the URL:
> http://<your_server>:<port>/simple/ as recommended by the documentation.
> And the website returned properly.

glad to hear it. :)

> The question is ... how the heck did the VelocityView servlet (a) get called
> in the first place, and (b) know to dump index.vm?  Neither index.vm or
> VelocityServlet are part of the URL ... and I don't understand the web.xml
> file.

the web.xml is at the center of it all.  :)  this is really a newbie question
about servlets in general and not velocity, so i'm not about to explain this
all here.   but i'll give you a link to one of the hundreds of docs on the
internet that could help you here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html

have fun! :)

Nathan Bubna
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