Thanks for the info. If it happens as you describe it, then it should be a bug. Please file > an issue in Bugzilla. > http://tomcat.apache.org/bugreport.html#How_to_write_a_bug_report > > I've filed a bug here: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54955
> Can you attach to your report a simple web application, with source > code, that reproduces the issue? > > Two questions: > a) Is it specific to the context root (empty string) mapping? > Yes, only the empty string mapping will broke while the others are OK. > b) Is it specific to annotations? (Does it work if you specify the > mapping in web.xml)? > > Nope, both annotations and DD fail. > BTW, support for such mappings was added to Tomcat 7 rather late (in > 7.0.28 - bug 53356 ). Apparently they are no so widely used. > > > If this is the case, what is considered as best practice when I need a servlet to handle context root? The function I'm trying to achieve is a 2-face context root: For logged-in users, show home.jsp with params passed from root servlet. For users not logged-in, show index.jsp. -- ------ Regards, Zheng Yang
