I've poked at Tomcat for several years now. I find myself looking for a job and have too much time on my hands, so I've decided to take servlets seriously and grasp the concepts.
Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time Googling for how to set up a <servlet> <servlet-mapping> pair of elements in the web.xml file on my Windows XP installation of Tomcat 5.5.15. Fustrated at my inability to get these correct, I simply placed a servlet class I copied from a book and compiled on my machine into this directory: C:\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes My thought was that if I couldn't get the web.xml stuff right from looking at various examples and explanations I was reading, if I could get one working by using the full path to the servlet class, I could "reverse engineer" the meaning of the web.xml instructions I was reading. The term "full path" comes from an explanation of what text ought to go into the <servlet-class> element child of the <servlet> element in web.xml. In serveral articles I found, this phrase was used, as in "the full path to the servlet class". To me, a "full path" means all the way back to the root directory of the device in question, but I get the feeling that this isn't what these authors meant. I rather suspect that they mean a relative path from some point that is the root of the Tomcat application. So far, in the address box of my browser, I have tried: http://localhost:8080/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/Ch1Servlet http://localhost:8080/WEB-INF/classes/Ch1Servlet http://localhost:8080/classes/Ch1Servlet http://localhost:8080/Ch1Servlet In each case I get an HTTP Status 404 error telling me that "The requested resource (here you can fill in each substring above starting at the first '/') is not available." Reading and re-reading has not cleared up this mystery for me. Can some tell me in a no-jargon way, exactly how to get this servlet to become "available"? Thanks. -- Charles Knell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
